By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NASSAU, Bahamas (NNPA) – A top Bahamas official praised the Black Press last week as essential to truthfully and...
(US News) – State lawmakers across the country are considering bills that would increase the presence of guns in schools, with a number of states...
At 71, the Freedom Fighter Battles On by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer Say the name Angela Davis and, depending...
At 71, the Freedom Fighter Battles On by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer Say the name Angela Davis and, depending...
(The Atlantic) – Like many mothers raising children in Chicago’s housing projects in the 1990s and 2000s, Seitia Harris was afraid of the drugs and...
(Salon) – After losing the Great Race Debate of 2014 to Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jonathan Chait has decided to begin this year coming for “the feminists,”...
George E. Curry NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) –Black girls are disproportionately suffering from punitive school disciplinary policies and actions yet society fails to take note of...
CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The gap in bachelor-degree attainment between the nation’s richest and poorest students by age 24 has doubled during...
BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, reflected later on how it felt...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent A woman is raped every 2 minutes in the United States. According to the U.S. Justice Department, nearly one...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Income inequality is rising and it affects workers in every state, according to a new...
Christopher Mathias, HUFFINGTON POST NEW YORK (Huffington Post)—Constance Malcolm still lives in the Bronx apartment where her 18-year-old son, Ramarley Graham, was shot and killed...
Terry Shropshire, Special from the ATLANTA DAILY WORLD (NNPA)—Johnson Publishing, the mothership company of the beleaguered yet iconic magazines Ebony and Jet has put their legendary photo archives on the...
Sam Ford, ABC 7 – WJLA WASHINGTON (WJLA.com) – Parents are furious over what they’re calling a sudden surge in teachers resigning or being fired...
Victor Blackwell and Devon Sayers, CNN VALDOSTA, Ga. (CNN)—A jury found Kendrick Johnson’s parents and five other family members guilty of misdemeanor charges related to a...
Victor Blackwell and Devon Sayers, CNN VALDOSTA, Ga. (CNN)—A jury found Kendrick Johnson’s parents and five other family members guilty of misdemeanor charges related to a...
(New York Times) – The fat yellow package was addressed to the principal, students and staff of Mott Hall Bridges Academy in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Inside were...
(Fox News) – Denver’s police chief has ordered a review of cases where an officer fired at a moving car after perceiving it to be...
(Vox) – Cooperation with law enforcement helped increase the number of Americans absolved of previous criminal convictions to 125 in 2014 — a record high since...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Chris Mathews’ crew showed up this month to demolish one of the thousands of vacant homes destined for demolition...
ALLEN REED, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Board of Education voted Wednesday to take control of Little Rock schools less than six...
ST. LOUIS (USA Today) — A shouting and shoving match erupted at St. Louis City Hall Wednesday during the first public hearing on a police oversight...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 28 (UPI) — A Florida woman sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing a warning shot during a fight with her husband...
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Police say a Delaware drug suspect went out on a limb to transport a stash of cocaine, but he was busted...
MITCH WEISS, Associated Press ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — The convictions of nine South Carolina black men who integrated a whites-only lunch counter during the height...