By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I would wager that you have had this experience. It has happened to me on more than one occasion. I...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Planning for retirement requires strong discipline, flexibility and constant awareness. Most African Americans do little thinking about it. Those who...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Some might think the annual report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage the U.S. Census Bureau released last week...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist One of the most interesting findings of the data recently released by the Census Bureau is that so many recent college graduates...
Special to the NNPA from The New York Amsterdam News (The New York Amsterdam News)—Approximately 500 refugees are feared dead after their vessel was rammed by...
Eric Olson, ASSOCIATED PRESS LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s Ameer Abdullah, a candidate for this year’s Heisman Trophy, says 2013 winner Jameis Winston of Florida...
Arienne Thompson, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Like any good scandal, this is the part where the offending party apologizes — profusely. Cue The New York Times‘ mea...
Lauren Raab, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (The L.A. Times)—The retrial of Michael Dunn, a Florida man who shot an unarmed teenager to death after asking...
Joby Warrick and Steven Mufson, THE WASHINGTON POST NEW YORK (The Washington Post)—For 140 years, the Rockefellers were the oil industry’s first family, scions of...
José Patiño Girona, THE TAMPA TRIBUNE TAMPA, Fla. (The Tampa Tribune) — The last time Jerlean Moore talked to her daughter on the phone, she sang...
Michael Liedtke, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple has tightened its technological security so not even the company can pry into a password-protected iPhone or iPad,...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore judge has approved a $190 million settlement between Johns Hopkins Hospital and more than 8,000 patients of...
Michael Liedtke, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is making amends for years of blundering with one smart move: an early investment in Alibaba Group that...
(Washington Post) – Deep in the rain forest, down a dirt road with potholes that swallow four-wheel-drive vehicles, is a tiny point of light in...
Joe Miller, BBC NEWS (BBC News)—Google has announced that its next mobile operating system, Android L, will encrypt users’ data by default. The measure will make...
RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni fired his prime minister, a former ally who is widely expected to seek...
Gary Gutting, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—This is the 10th in a series of interviews about religion that I am conducting for...
ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Home Depot said Thursday that a data breach that lasted for months at its stores in the...
(USA Today) – It was the third largest margin of defeat in franchise history, but it might as well have been the worst loss ever...
(USA Today) – Ten or 15 years from now, the business barons who run the National Football League will look back at the 2014 season...
PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Skeptical members of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals questioned the soundness of Barry Bonds’ obstruction of...
(Politico) – A majority of Americans disapprove of the way the National Football League has handled the issue of domestic violence in the wake of the...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three backup dancers sued Cher on Thursday claiming they were wrongfully fired from her current tour and the singer engaged in...
(Los Angeles Times) – An advertisement for the new Fox television show “Red Band Society” was abruptly pulled from Los Angeles Metro buses Thursday after...
