(BBC) – Ivory Coast’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for her role in the violence that followed the...
DOUG FEINBERG, AP Basketball Writer Texas Southern imposed its own penalty on the women’s basketball team, withdrawing from the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament that begins Wednesday....
SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The president of the University of Oklahoma severed the school’s ties with a national fraternity on Monday and...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NEW ANALYSIS SELMA, Ala. (NNPA) – Throughout his campaign for the presidency, Barack Obama was dogged by one question: Is...
(The Washington Post) – The country’s first African American president is finding himself increasingly at odds with a cornerstone of the African American community: historically black...
SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) — Madison takes pride in being named one of the best places in the U.S. to live, raise a...
Registration is now open for the Stanford Cancer Institute Community Partnership Program’s 4th Annual Breast Cancer & African Americans (BCAA) Conference, which will be held Saturday,...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Justice Department’s recent investigation of the Ferguson, Mo. Police Department not only revealed widespread...
(Politico) – News about race in America these days is almost universally negative. Longstanding wealth, income and employment gaps between whites and people of color are increasing, and...
Second-, third-, and fourth-grade students at the Sausalito Marin City School District’s Bayside MLK Academy can now receive new bicycles. Corporate Vision and Turning Wheels...