Raises Funds for Smithsonian’s National Museum Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper SiriusXM’s Joe Madison achieved the historic goal of a 52-hour marathon broadcast...
(The Los Angeles Times)—An officer-involved shooting on Los Angeles’ skid row has captured nationwide attention with cellphone video that shows the incident. Three officers opened...
Bruce Smith, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A tranquil spot on the Cooper River in Charleston is a place of memory, much like New...
Bruce Smith, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A tranquil spot on the Cooper River in Charleston is a place of memory, much like New...
Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)— Six months after the fatal shooting of a black teenager by police in Ferguson, Mo., the Justice Department...
Spencer Ackerman, THE GUARDIAN CHICAGO (The Guardian)—A Chicago man says he was confined for three days – shackled, interrogated and fed only twice, his whereabouts...
NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An independent autopsy of an unarmed Mexican man killed by police in Washington state shows he was...
NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An independent autopsy of an unarmed Mexican man killed by police in Washington state shows he was...
(USA Today) – Journalism lost a courageous soldier this week. Dori J. Maynard, 56, who died Tuesday of lung cancer, didn’t report in combat zones. She had...
BILL SIZEMORE, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Lewis Reynolds didn’t understand what had been done to him when he was 13. Years later, after getting...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Loretta Lynch won approval from a key Senate committee Thursday to serve as the nation’s next attorney general, as...
DENISE LAVOIE, AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect asked a judge Thursday to dismiss the indictment against their...
JEFF AMY, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three more young white men, all part of a group that repeatedly searched Mississippi’s capital city for black...
JENNIFER KAY, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The mother of Trayvon Martin says she’s disappointed that federal prosecutors decided not to charge a neighborhood watch volunteer...
(Chicago Reporter) – The City of Chicago paid $54.2 million in settlements and verdicts for police misconduct cases last year, including more than $9.5 million...
by Maria Adebola Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper The United States Postal Service continued its annual recognition of Black excellence by honoring the...
NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — When Agapita Montes-Rivera first watched the video of her son being gunned down by police in Washington...
JENNIFER KAY, Associated Press ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin in a 2012...
by Roberto Alejandro Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Preventing future Fergusons will require dismantling the patterns of segregation established by decades of federal...
by Roberto Alejandro Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Preventing future Fergusons will require dismantling the patterns of segregation established by decades of federal...
PASCO, Wash. (AP) — The 60-year-old mother of an unarmed Mexican man fatally shot by police officers in Washington state fainted when she viewed her...
PASCO, Wash. (AP) — The 60-year-old mother of an unarmed Mexican man fatally shot by police officers in Washington state fainted when she viewed her...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent FOURTH IN A SERIES WASHINGTON (NNPA) – An online survey of sexual assault survivors conduced as part of this series...
Anthony Shahid, in black, marches with Michael Brown, Sr. in t-shirt and Akbar Muhammad to the left to Shadid’s right is activist Zaki Baruti in yellow...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Many young African Americans will be shut out of the high paying jobs of the...