Matt Helms, DETROIT FREE PRESS DETROIT (Detroit Free Press)—The oversight board that will monitor Detroit’s finances after the city officially emerges from bankruptcy has established...
(MusicTimes.com)—Taylor Swift may still be eschewing Spotify with her new album 1989 (and her entire back catalogue), but Beyoncé has finally gotten in on the streaming game. Today, the “7/11”...
Jason Straziuso, ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Maasai community near Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park may be able to keep its traditional homeland after...
Jonathan Drew, ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has become an attractive market for smartphone-based car services such as Uber and Lyft,...
Dan Graziano, ESPN EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (ESPN.com)— In Week 12 of a lost New York Giants season, rookie wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. made the greatest catch I...
Nicole Arce, TECH TIMES (TechTimes.com)—A few weeks after Google Maps received the Material Design makeover, Google is rolling out another update with a few minor features...
Sara Fischer, CNN WASHINGTON (CNN.com)—Drive it straight off the lot and into the Oval Office. That’s what President Obama says the American people want, admitting Sunday...
Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY CLEVELAND (USA Today)—The father of a 12-year-old boy fatally shot by police after wielding a replica gun questioned Sunday why police...
by Avis Thomas-Lester and Ruben Castaneda Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer D.C. Council member Marion S. Barry, the venerable former four-time mayor and...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist “Hey, hey, hey (in my best Fat Albert’s voice), please listen to what I have to say. My friend Bill Cosby...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander will likely become chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Though he has yet...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist Even though the next Congress, which starts on January 6, will feature 48 African Americans, the largest number in history, the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist As we prepare to commemorate World AIDS Day on Monday, Dec. 1, this is a good time to look at...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Since the November 4 elections, there has been a broad and needed discussion concerning what the Democrats did wrong or,...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist In the face of a calculated and relentless assault by Republicans on Barack Obama, a president with a dismal approval...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The midterm elections have upended the old tropes about what you can or can’t do or say about guns during...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Here’s a sobering statement from Economic Policy Institute (EPI): “Fifty years ago (2013), the unemployment rate was 5% for Whites and...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist As I watched President Barack Obama address the nation on his “controversial” Executive Order on immigration reform, I was...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist A recent poll showing that White, Black and Hispanic New Yorkers differ significantly in evaluating new city mayor Bill De...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist A couple of weeks ago, law enforcement officials in Mauritania arrested nine people for doing something the government considers radical: protesting...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist For succeeding generations, retirement has been the time when older Americans reaped the benefits of their years in the workplace. Oftentimes...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In a season focused on gratitude, 17-year-old Monica Chica has an attitude about choosing to be grateful that’s wise far...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist As an African-American entrepreneur who has made a living writing books under contracts, the ongoing contract disputes and negotiations between star...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist It has been told by many in the press that President Obama is a former professor who taught constitutional law...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist How Can I Dump my Sister? Hey Ms. Alma, I’m getting married and I want everything to be perfect. We’re getting...