Zach Stafford, HUFFINGTON POST KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Huffington Post)—Early November 2014, I received an email from a colleague, Randall Jenson, who works for the Kansas...
Samantha Masunaga, L.A. TIMES PASCO, Wash. (The Los Angeles Times)—Several hundred people marched through the streets of Pasco, Wash., on Saturday to protest the fatal...
Michael A. Fletcher, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Capital Savings Bank opened shop in Washington in 1888, making it the nation’s first black-owned bank at...
Michael A. Fletcher, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Capital Savings Bank opened shop in Washington in 1888, making it the nation’s first black-owned bank at...
Nate Cohn, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Last month, I wrote an article titled “Evidence That the Jim Crow Era Endures for Older Black...
Nate Cohn, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Last month, I wrote an article titled “Evidence That the Jim Crow Era Endures for Older Black...
JACKSON, Miss. (NPR.com)—Here’s an astonishing speech by U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, one of just two African-Americans to have ever served as federal judges in Mississippi....
JACKSON, Miss. (NPR.com)—Here’s an astonishing speech by U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, one of just two African-Americans to have ever served as federal judges in Mississippi....
Demonstrators converge on Ferguson Police Dept. headquarters. by J.A. Salaam Special to the NNPA from The Final Call FERGUSON, Mo. (FinalCall.com) – Nearly seven months since...
SHALLOTTE, North Carolina (WTVR) — A 26-year-old mother of four who said she holds a winning Powerball ticket sold in North Carolina planned to spend her...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is at a crossroads on matters of race relations and law enforcement, presenting “hard truths” that...
HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One hundred years ago this spring, Hollywood came of age in a blaze of wonder and fury....
HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — One hundred years ago this spring, Hollywood came of age in a blaze of wonder and fury....
by Khorri Atkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Three years after NYPD officer Richard Haste chased unarmed Black teen Ramarley Graham...
by Khorri Atkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Three years after NYPD officer Richard Haste chased unarmed Black teen Ramarley Graham...
(New York Times) – When Michelle Obama stepped onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention in 2012 to talk about her husband and the coming...
(New York Times) – When Michelle Obama stepped onto the stage at the Democratic National Convention in 2012 to talk about her husband and the coming...
COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The indictment of New York Police Department Officer Peter Liang Wednesday on charges of...
COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The indictment of New York Police Department Officer Peter Liang Wednesday on charges of...
February 8, 2015, I appreciate your bringing a group of congresspersons and other dignitaries each year to Selma and other places in Alabama for...
February 8, 2015, I appreciate your bringing a group of congresspersons and other dignitaries each year to Selma and other places in Alabama for...
(Salon) – Late last week, on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, a hooded individual distributed fliers and hung posters declaring a war...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black criminal defendants accounted for roughly 46 percent of the 125 known exonerations in 2014, the...
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...