CHICAGO (USA Today) — After recording the fewest number of murders in decades last year, violence is soaring: a 40% increase in shootings and 29%...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If the Black residents of Ferguson, Mo., want to radically reform the political climate that...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If the Black residents of Ferguson, Mo., want to radically reform the political climate that...
EMERY P. DALESIO, Associated Press MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke University officials are trying to determine who hung a rope noose from...
EMERY P. DALESIO, Associated Press MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke University officials are trying to determine who hung a rope noose from...
(Reuters) – A judge on Wednesday entered a not guilty plea for a man charged with drug possession who was dragged from his car, struck...
(USA Today) – A noose was discovered hanging on a tree outside Duke University’s student center early Wednesday morning. The noose has since been removed, but...
(New York Times) – Suppose you accept the persuasive data that inequality has been rising in the United States and most advanced nations in recent decades....
by Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Jordan Shanks, a sophomore English major at Howard University admitted that before Black Press Week, he didn’t...
Michael Brown, Sr., right, and activist Anthony Shahid lead a protest in Clayton, Mo., the seat of government for St. Louis County. (J.A. Salaam/The Final Call)...
by Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. will begin a stay in a halfway house...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A few years ago, violence on Chicago streets thrust a recently elected mayor into the national spotlight as shootouts...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Benjamin Crump, the lawyer who skyrocketed to national prominence by representing the family of Trayvon...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Benjamin Crump, the lawyer who skyrocketed to national prominence by representing the family of Trayvon...
PHOENIX (USA Today) — An Arizona State University course called “U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness” has gained national attention and landed the...
PHOENIX (USA Today) — An Arizona State University course called “U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness” has gained national attention and landed the...
Jennifer Mann, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)—At a pro-police rally Saturday, a St. Louis police union representative called Department of Justice investigators “a...
Jennifer Mann, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)—At a pro-police rally Saturday, a St. Louis police union representative called Department of Justice investigators “a...
MONTEREY, Calif. (Monterey Herald)—What began as a peaceful and lawful demonstration to raise awareness about police brutality against people of color ended Saturday with several...
David Weigel, BLOOMBERG (Bloomberg)—On August 9, 2014, the day that Ferguson, Mo. teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson,...
Landon Haaf, WFAA-TV via USA TODAY (USA Today)—The University of Oklahoma will hire a new vice president to handle diversity efforts in the wake of...
Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger via USA TODDAY JACKSON, Miss. (USA Today)—Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney...
Mike Morris, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION ATLANTA (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)—The U.S. Bankruptcy Court this week approved a plan that will let financially-strapped Morris Brown College emerge...
Juliet Linderman, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Teenagers awaiting trial on adult charges in Baltimore are being kept in solitary confinement for far too long —...
ED WHITE, Associated Press COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A teenager told authorities that her mother killed two siblings and forced her to put...