By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Reverend Needs Heavenly Advice Dear Alma, My brother in-law is a minister, but he’s also an oblivious, self-centered fool. At Christmas,...
NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce and husband Jay Z will launch the co-headlining “On the Run Tour” on June 25 in Miami. Beyonce made the...
[E!] It was the fight that everyone was talking about—so what happened next?! Last week, fans were shocked when a heated argument between Porsha Willliams and Kenya Moore escalated into a jaw-dropping...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Rashad Harden, a house music and footwork pioneer who performed as DJ Rashad, was found dead this weekend of...
[Los Angeles Times] Last year’s Proposition 8 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court changed the lives of many same-sex couples and their families in California for the better. But the...
SAM HANANEL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen federal appeals court judges have violated federal conflict-of-interest laws over the past three years, throwing...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. public high schools have reached a milestone, an 80 percent graduation rate. Yet that still means 1...
by George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) – Though no one knew it at the time, the decision by Edward T. Welburn Jr.’s...
TIM REYNOLDS, AP Basketball Writer Magic Johnson called upon the NBA to “come down hard” on Donald Sterling, even saying that the longtime owner of the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A revised plan for major tobacco companies to purchase court-ordered ads to admit that they deliberately...
ANTONIO GONZALEZ, AP Sports Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Clippers chose not to speak publicly about owner Donald Sterling before they faced the...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Supreme Court cases about police searches of cellphones without warrants present vastly different views of the ubiquitous device....
While the NBA investigates the racist comments from Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling that was originally published by TMZ, another media outlet has found the extended version...
ANTONIO GONZALEZ, AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Anger, frustration and calls for action echoed around the NBA on Saturday after an audio recording surfaced...
GARY B. GRAVES, AP Sports Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky twin freshman guards Andrew and Aaron Harrison will return for a second season to a...
Contact: Nichole Taylor taylor@taylorcommunicationsgroup.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NNPA’S CLOVES CAMPBELL AND LEADING BLACK PUBLISHERS TRACE THEIR AFRICAN ROOTS WITH AFRICANANCESTRY.COM WASHINGTON, DC (April 2014) – Cloves...
RYAN NAKASHIMA, AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation’s top telecoms regulator is proposing to allow a pay-for-priority fast lane on the Internet for...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe Systems have settled a class-action lawsuit alleging they conspired to prevent their...
MICHAEL FELBERBAUM, AP Tobacco Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government’s move to regulate e-cigarettes is a leap into the unknown. Most everyone agrees a ban...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials are worried about recent U.S. measles outbreaks that so far have caused more illnesses than...
[MedPage Today] GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Members of an FDA advisory panel said Thursday that the agency should ban the use of electrical stimulation devices for...
DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press MAY PEN, Jamaica (AP) — It’s been nearly a year since Sevina Giderisingh’s 20-year-old son died in a confrontation with a police...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian rights group is urging the United Nations to help secure the release of some 230 schoolgirls abducted by extremists...
NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks keeps finding ways to squeeze more money out of people. The Seattle-based chain reported a stronger quarterly profit Thursday as...
SARAH SKIDMORE SELL, AP Business Writer Meredith Corp. is ending subscription service for “Ladies’ Home Journal,” one of the nation’s oldest women’s magazines, due to declining...