Julie Snider, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today)– Facebook, the world’s most popular social network, released statistics on the makeup of its workforce that do...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT – The 2014 Toyota 4Runner is a throwback, one of the few true sport utilities on the market. That,...
Mark Sherman, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the president’s power to fill high-level vacancies with temporary appointments, ruling in...
Nancy Dillon, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (New York Daily News)—Five years ago today, the world seemed to stop its rotation at the news the King...
Rosalind S. Helderman, WASHINGTON POST Phillip Bump, WASHINGTON POST JACKSONVILLE, Miss. (The Washington Post)—In an e-mail sent late last week, the black Democratic mayor of Vicksburg,...
Paul Overberg, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Slowing Hispanic immigration and birth rates are shifting the USA’s growth toward Asians, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. For the second...
Barbara Ortutay, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Some 1 billion people are now using Android devices, Google said as the company kicked off its two-day developer...
Jim Vertuno, ASSOCIATED PRESS NATAL, Brazil (AP) — Biting opponents, racist comments — all that looked to be behind Luis Suarez, as soccer’s bad boy was maturing into...
LONDON (AP) — Five-time champion Serena Williams made light work of Anna Tatishvili, beating the fellow American 6-1, 6-2 to reach the second round at Wimbledon on Tuesday. Williams,...
John Wagner and Jenna Johnson, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown cruised past his two rivals in Maryland’s bitter Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday,...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to mobilize a global front against anti-gay violence and discrimination, Vice President Joe Biden declared Tuesday that...
Doug Ferguson, ASSOCIATED PRESS BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — About two dozen photographers lined up in a row on the range Tuesday at Congressional, a reminder...
Connor Radnovich, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act on Tuesday by posthumously bestowing the Congressional...
By Hollis Watkins Special to the Afro (The Afro)—Racism is still alive and well in Mississippi and throughout this country just as it was in the...
(Reuters) – California’s top court on Monday unanimously ruled that large retailers are not required to provide automated external defibrillators (AEDs) inside their stores, deciding...
LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES (AP) — With a $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers hanging in the balance, a judge suggested...
BRIAN MAHONEY, AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Carmelo Anthony “loves being a Knick” but is headed for free agency because he wants to explore...
NEW YORK (AP) — Terry McMillan is ending a long-term relationship — with her publisher. The author of such best-sellers as “Waiting to Exhale” and...
NEW YORK (AP) — A draft of one of the most popular songs of all time, Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” sold Tuesday for...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGNTON (NNPA) – From 2003 to 2014, student debt in America skyrocketed from $250 million to $1.2 trillion, surpassing...
(Detroit Free-Press) – Law enforcement officials rescued 168 child victims of commercial sex trafficking in a nationwide sweep during the past week and arrested 281 alleged...
By Oscar Blayton Special to the NNPA PERSPECTIVE Beginning in 1945, as a Black male child, I spent my early years in a small southern...