By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist I am always on the alert to make sure that Black Americans are treated fairly and justly. No, I...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist With opportunity gaps widening for poor children and children of color, new guidance from the Office for Civil Rights in...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist Three years ago, the Department of Education tightened the loan standards for Parent PLUS Loans. The change affected more than...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist There have been incidents along our nation’s path that are outright disgusting and with racial animus. The internment of...
By Rep. Steven Horsford NNPA Guest Columnist Recently, former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb published a column discussing what he claims to be the “hidden dangers...
Sean Silbert and Julie Makinen, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BEIJING (The L.A. Times)—Hong Kong’s democracy protesters are fighting off their chief executive, who is dressed...
Jamie McCauley, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hall of Famer Juan Marichal mingled in the San Francisco clubhouse and waited patiently for his chance...
Georgi Kantchev, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Governments around the world, particularly in emerging markets, are raising taxes on information technologies, threatening to...
Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY LAS VEGAS (USA Today)—So for her 34th birthday, Kim Kardashian had a quiet dinner at home, surrounded by close family and friends. We...
NEW YORK (AP) — Missy Elliott, Lil Kim and Da Brat will reunite at next month’s Soul Train Awards. BET and Centric announced Monday that...
Pam Belluck, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Science edged closer on Sunday to showing that an antioxidant in chocolate appears to improve some memory skills...
(The L.A. Times)—The average price of regular gasoline at U.S. pumps slid to the lowest level in almost four years, dropping 18.2 cents in the...
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Google executive Alan Eustace broke the sound barrier and set several skydiving records over the southern New Mexico desert early Friday after taking...
Hayley Tsukamaya, WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Let’s be honest: it’s 2014, and the automotive industry has utterly disappointed a generation of science-fiction lovers and futurists....
(Reuters)—The U.S. military was isolating personnel returning from their mission to help West African countries curb Ebola even though they showed no sign of infection...
Alex Rozier, special to USA TODAY from KING-TV, Seattle MARYSVILLE, Wash. (USA Today)— Gia Soriano, 14, died Sunday night, becoming the second victim of a shooting at...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month let stand the state of Texas’ latest attempt to use the old...
(BBC.com)—For six months the world has waited for news of the fate of more than 200 girls abducted by Nigerian militant group Boko Haram. As the...
Ravi Somaiya, THE NEW YORK TIMES MENLO PARK, Calif. (The New York Times)— Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg...
Bruce Horowitz, USA TODAY (USA Today)—The minority consumer may be the unlikely hero of holiday 2014. With the economy mostly back on its feet thank...
Derrick Goold, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)—Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras, a rising meteor of talent who was considered one of the top hitting...
Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Picture Scooby-Doo and the gang, but replace Shaggy with Mike Tyson, and Scooby with an alcoholic pigeon. That’s basically the premise of Adult...
LaMont Hamilton, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TALK STORY (Talk Story)—Five on the Black Hand Side is a project exploring gestural languages that were born in African American communities during the...
Kyle Hightower, ASSOCIATED PRESS ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The trials of three of four members of Florida A&M University’s marching band on charges of felony...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Single Dad Needs Help Dear Alma, I’m a single dad who recently relocated with my job. I’m raising my 11-year-old daughter...
