By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist We recently lost Marion Barry, an American icon who changed this nation in ways most don’t understand. I remember coming...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week, civil rights leader and political icon Marion Barry died and barely after he had taken his last breath, the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist President Obama was right on the money in announcing his executive order on immigration. Contrary to the assertion of Republican demagogues,...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist More than 80 members of the clergy from 22 states, representing multiple denominations, converged on Capitol Hill from November 17-19 in...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist During the month of July, the NBA Player’s Association elected Attorney Michele Roberts as their first African-American female executive director, putting...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In the wake of Ferguson and a series of young Black male deaths at the hands of official law enforcement...
David Nield, GIZMODO (Gizmodo.com)—Having a PIN code or pattern to protect your device makes a lot of sense, but it’s also annoying. Thankfully, the new version...
Lily Rothman, TIME MAGAZINE (TIME)—Dec. 1 has been World AIDS Day since 1988 — but though the awareness and activism around the diseases has changed...
John Heilprin, ASSOCIATED PRESS GENEVA (AP) — Liberia and Guinea have met a Dec. 1 target for isolating 70 percent of people infected with Ebola and...
Mae Anderson, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers rolled out discounts and free shipping deals on Cyber Monday, with millions of Americans expected to...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Washington, D.C. just lost an icon. In the early morning hours of November 23, D.C.’s Mayor for Life succumbed to some...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Some synonyms of the word “callous” are: heartless, unfeeling, unmerciful, cruel, and inhumane. A mid-November poll by the Gallup organization...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Need to Move On Dear Alma, I have been with this person for six years, and we’ve had our up and...
Elias Meseret, ASSOCIATED PRESS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — More than 3,300 people were tested for HIV Sunday in the Ethiopian region of Gambella, a massive...
(Reuters)—Mall crowds were relatively thin early on Black Friday in a sign of what has become the new normal in U.S. holiday shopping: the mad rush...
Abhimanyu Ghoshal, THE NEXT WEB (TheNextWeb.com)—With Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone slated for release next month, it’s not completely surprising that the competition is following close behind....
Nedra Pickler, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Spurred by the Ferguson, Missouri shooting, President Barack Obama is calling for $75 million in federal spending to...
Matthew Daly, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — An aide to a Republican congressman resigned Monday after her Facebook post criticizing President Barack Obama’s daughters touched off...
Brian J. Tumulty, USA TODAY (USAToday.com)—The protesters who have continued to keep national attention focused on the decision of a St. Louis County grand jury to...
Cindy Boren, THE WASHINGTON POST ST. LOUIS (The Washington Post)—The St. Louis Police Officers’ Association called on the NFL to punish five St. Louis Rams...
Frank Rich, New York Magazine via VULTURE (Vulture.com)— The last time Frank Rich had a conversation with Chris Rock was in early 1996, when they and...
Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY (USAToday.com)—United Airlines has begun testing a new app that lets customers use their phones to make purchases at certain stores and...
Karu F. Daniels Special to the NNPA from the Chicago Defender (NNPA)—2014 will go down as a landmark year for Blacks on The Great White...
(NecoleBitchie.com)—A communications director for Republican congressman is likely updating her LinkedIn profile today after missing the memo that says 1. You don’t come for people’s kids and...
ESPN.com’s Don Van Natta Jr., ESPN’s Andrew Brandt and ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter contributed to this report. NEW YORK (ESPN.com)—Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice...
