COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Criminal charges will be unsealed against a rookie police officer who fired into a darkened stairwell at a...
COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Criminal charges will be unsealed against a rookie police officer who fired into a darkened stairwell at a...
JACK ELLIOTT JR., Associated Press JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Three young white men who admitted they were out hunting black people to attack when they beat,...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Blacks and Latinos are incarcerated at disproportionately higher rates in part because police target them...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent SECOND IN A SERIES WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The first time Tiffany Perry learned about her conception, she was too innocent...
DALLAS (New York Times) — A block from the tourist-swarmed headquarters of the former Texas School Book Depository sits the old county courthouse, now a museum....
DALLAS (New York Times) — A block from the tourist-swarmed headquarters of the former Texas School Book Depository sits the old county courthouse, now a museum....
(CNN) – Owning a home is key to unlocking the American dream, but it’s much harder to achieve if you’re black or Hispanic. That’s according...
Paul Hampel, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (STLToday.com)—Federal class-action lawsuits filed Sunday against the cities of Jennings and Ferguson allege that jails there operate as...
Emily Wagster Pettus, ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Anne Moody, whose memoir “Coming of Age in Mississippi” gave a wrenching account of growing up...
Emily Wagster Pettus, ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Anne Moody, whose memoir “Coming of Age in Mississippi” gave a wrenching account of growing up...
JALEESA JONES, USA Today (USA Today)—#BlackLivesMatter will soon be more than just a Twitter hashtag for students at Dartmouth College. The school will offer a course this...
Larry Altman, DAILY BREEZE MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (Daily Breeze)—A black Manhattan Beach couple said Thursday they believe their race might be the reason someone set...
Larry Altman, DAILY BREEZE MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (Daily Breeze)—A black Manhattan Beach couple said Thursday they believe their race might be the reason someone set...
Mike DeBonis, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—The District’s predominantly African American leaders have long taken pains to address the concerns of underrepresented minority...
Mike DeBonis, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—The District’s predominantly African American leaders have long taken pains to address the concerns of underrepresented minority...
Frances Stead Sellers, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—It’s no secret that the stamp of historic segregation is still seared into black and white Americans’...
Sonya Eskridge Special to the NNPA from the CHICAGO DEFENDER (NNPA)—Black female students are facing two huge institutional challenges as racism and sexism converge in...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A case that grabbed headlines and exposed deep-seated corruption in Baltimore’s city jail, where gang commanders impregnated guards, dealt...
DETROIT (USA Today) — After years of huffin’ and puffin’, logging 21 miles by foot to get to and from work, James Robertson can breathe...
RICK CALLAHAN, Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 9-year-old Indianapolis girl wounded by gunfire as she was heading off to her weekly Girl Scouts meeting to...
WASHINGTON (CBS) – Rosa Parks is known as the mother of the Civil Rights movement, but she is still an enigma in many ways. A new...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) — Along Main Street in a small South Carolina city, there is war memorial honoring fallen World War I...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two months after a grand jury declined to press criminal charges in the police killing of an unarmed...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two months after a grand jury declined to press criminal charges in the police killing of an unarmed...