By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist One of my mentors asked me why I was so quiet and not making my voice heard in the streets...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The groundswell for criminal justice reform has become nearly daily headline news. Demonstrations spanning the nation and many parts of...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I had an interesting, though brief, discussion with a rich friend about President Obama. He is quite conservative, politically. He...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist I wrote a sports column earlier about domestic violence, triggered by the NFL case of Baltimore Ravens star running back...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist With all of his arrogance and bravado, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has really gotten his nation into a serious conundrum....
(The Grio)—Actor James Woods appears to have gone full crackpot on Twitter this morning, blaming the shooting deaths of two NYPD officers on Al Sharpton...
(BBC.com)—The condition of boxing legend Muhammad Ali has “vastly improved” since he was taken to hospital with a mild case of pneumonia, his spokesman has said....
Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service via USA TODAY VATICAN CITY (USA Today) — Pope Francis launched a blistering attack on the Vatican bureaucracy Monday, outlining a...
Lucia Mutikani, REUTERS (Reuters)—U.S. home resales tumbled to a six-month low in November after two straight months of strong increases, underscoring the uneven nature of...
Todd Richmond, ASSOCIATED PRESS MILWAUKEE (AP) — A white Milwaukee police officer who was fired after he fatally shot a black man in a downtown...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist One of the many questions that hover over President Obama’s historic breakthrough in ending the U.S. government’s half-century-long Cold...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist African Americans are overrepresented among the poor, but it would be a mistake to conclude that all African Americans are...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist A Ring of Pain Dear Alma, I love my husband. We’ve been married for 19 years. About 10 years...
Kevin C. Tofel, GIGAOM (Gigaom.com)—There were some interesting developments across multiple platforms this week: Microsoft started its rollout of Lumia Denim software, Apple outlined 64-bit...
Erika Rawes, USA TODAY (USA Today)—The end of the year is a busy time: People have the holiday season to prepare for, the New Year,...
Kareem Copeland, ASSOCIATED PRESS TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston was cleared Sunday of the accusations he faced at a student code...
Yohana Desta, MASHABLE (Mashable.com)—Some messiahs take their time. It took 14 years, but D’Angelo’s third album, Black Messiah, finally landed on Dec. 15. And its...
Glenn Kessler, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—It’s time for our annual round-up of the biggest Pinocchios of the year. The midterm elections, of course,...
Aaron Blake, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—A significant majority of Americans think race relations in the United States are bad, and race issues appear as...
Jan Ransom and Bill Hutchinson, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS BLADENBORO, N.C. (New York Daily News)—The mysterious hanging of a black North Carolina teen took new...
Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY (USA Today)—It didn’t take long for Jeb Bush to find out what he’ll be debating with his fellow Republicans if...
Mimi Whitefield, THE MIAMI HERALD HAVANA, Cuba (The Miami Hearld)—Despite U.S. promises of more trade and travel under renewed diplomatic relations with the communist island, leader...
Marcy Gordon, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — T-Mobile US will pay up to $90 million, mostly in refunds, for billing customers for cellphone text services...
Joan Lowy and Jennifer Agiesta, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans broadly back tight regulations on commercial drone operators, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll,...
Christopher Webber, ASSOCIATED PRESS VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — Lowell Steward, a former member of the Tuskegee Airmen who flew well over 100 missions over Europe during...
