MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press JASON KEYSER, Associated Press HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — The autopsy of a black woman who was found dead in a Texas jail...
(Salon) – At age sixteen, I went to a high school dance with a white male friend. When we pulled up to the gym, music blaring...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press MEG KINNARD, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Five weeks after nine people were slain at a black Charleston church, federal authorities have...
(New York Daily News) – Rachel Dolezal is braiding hair to make ends meet after her racial identity controversy put her in the crosshairs. The ex-NAACP...
(New York Times) – A dashboard camera video released by Texas officials, which contains vulgar language, confirms accounts of a physical confrontation between Sandra Bland and...
BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A former Baltimore police officer said Wednesday that he plans to perform an Al Jolson routine in blackface...
BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A former Baltimore police officer said Wednesday that he plans to perform an Al Jolson routine in blackface...
For more than a century, descendants of enslaved Africans could be punished or put to death for learning to read or arming themselves. The strategy: Keep...
(The Washington Post) – According to newly released police video, a Texas trooper threatened Sandra Bland with a Taser when he ordered her out of...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – These days, all Narene Stokes wants to do is clear her son’s name and gain some closure....
MELBOURNE, Fla. (USA Today) — Barring any last-minute setbacks, the country’s youngest murderer will walk out of prison Tuesday — free for the first time since he was 12...
(Vanity Fair) – It’s safe to say that Rachel Dolezal never thought much about the endgame. You can see it on her face in the local-TV...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (CBS News) — Hundreds of people taunted each other on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse during separate rallies staged by two groups...
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — The family of a Chicago-area woman found dead in a Texas jail cell last week is ordering an independent autopsy,...
Jeff Amy, ASSOCIATED PRESS STONEWALL, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Sunday night at a baseball park in a small Mississippi town to remember...
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...
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...
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