Greg Lacour, REUTERS COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) — A Ku Klux Klan chapter and an African-American group plan overlapping demonstrations on Saturday outside the South Carolina...
Jennifer Schuessler, THE NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — “Between the World and Me,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s meditation on being a black man in...
by Barney Blakeney Special to the NNPA from The Charleston Chronicle It’s been some three weeks since nine worshippers at Emanuel AME Church were gunned down...
CHICAGO (WLS) – Newly obtained video shows the arrest of 28-year-old Sandra Bland, a Naperville woman whose death at a Texas jail is being angrily questioned by...
(Daily Kos) – Sandra Bland died in police custody this past Monday. Visiting Texas from Chicago to interview for a college job at her alma...
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white man charged with killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston church will stand trial next July,...
(Reuters) – A South Carolina judge on Thursday extended for another week a temporary order sealing court documents and silencing lawyers and others involved in...
(Reuters) – A South Carolina judge on Thursday extended for another week a temporary order sealing court documents and silencing lawyers and others involved in...
By Samaria Bailey Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA – U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch pushed the NAACP to keep fighting for equality in...
By Samaria Bailey Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA – U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch pushed the NAACP to keep fighting for equality in...
(Washington Post) – Sharanda Jones — prisoner 33177-077 — struggled to describe the moment in 1999 when a federal judge sentenced her to life in prison...
(New York Times) – Two men were sitting in a parked car, waiting to pick someone up. Carlos Cervantes was in the driver’s seat. He was...
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Residents in a predominantly black South Carolina neighborhood say fliers have been distributed claiming to be from the Ku Klux Klan....
BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police car camera footage ordered released by a federal judge show a California man disobeying orders to keep...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Of the 46 states that elect prosecutors, more than half – 27 – have no known African...
By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) recently held a panel of juvenile court judges and...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge has narrowed a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of Michael Brown Jr. against...
(NBC News) – The poverty rate has declined for Hispanic, white and Asian children, but has remained steady for Black children, according to a new analysis released today...
(NBC News) – The poverty rate has declined for Hispanic, white and Asian children, but has remained steady for Black children, according to a new analysis released today...
ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – It’s labeled as a work of art; an exhibit in Chicago featuring a life size portrayal of Michael Brown after he was...
By Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA NEW YORK (NNPA) – “Mine was a simple hunger,” John A. Williams said of his early desire to become...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the wake of the mass murder of nine Black church members in Charleston, S.C. and the...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the wake of the mass murder of nine Black church members in Charleston, S.C. and the...
COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The family of a black man who died after being placed in a white...
“We find ourselves at crossroads in history” By Larry Miller Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – NAACP president and CEO Cornell W....
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