By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist This seems like an odd question. Capital access is the lifeblood of business growth and job creation. Thus, all...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Whenever the president of the United States speaks to a national convention of the National Association for the...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Although he forged a distinguished career as a 10-term Republican Congressman from the early 1950s to the early 1970s,...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Trying to Help Mom Dear Alma, My dad left my mom for another woman. My mother is so sad and I...
Matthew Lee and Peter Orsi, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations Monday after more than five decades...
Aaron E. Carroll, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — It is becoming easier to get marijuana, legally. In the last 20 years or...
Niraj Chokshi, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — The state pension shortfall is closing in on $1 trillion, according to new Pew Charitable Trusts...
Cian Fahey, BLEACHER REPORT (BleacherReport.com) — One statement was made more often than any other during the 2015 NFL draft. Jameis Winston will have an easier...
Mike Vulpo, PEOPLE MAGAZINE (People) — Congratulations are in order for Fantasia Barrino! The American Idol winner and her fiancé Kendall Taylor appeared to have...
David Ng, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (The L.A. Times) — Before he became the director of such grim and punishing movies as “Hunger,” “Shame” and...
D.L. Chandler, HIP HOP WIRED PHOENIX, Ariz. (HipHopWired.com) — Bernie Sanders is emerging as a rising star in the growing race for the Democratic Party’s...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (CBS News) — Hundreds of people taunted each other on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse during separate rallies staged by two groups...
HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — The family of a Chicago-area woman found dead in a Texas jail cell last week is ordering an independent autopsy,...
Jeff Amy, ASSOCIATED PRESS STONEWALL, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Sunday night at a baseball park in a small Mississippi town to remember...
Nancy Bernac, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — It’s inevitable: At some point, teenage kids just aren’t that into their parents anymore. President Barack Obama,...
Robyn Dixon, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES NAIROBI, Kenya (The L.A. Times) — It was the bad example, the embarrassment, the painful memory. But when Westgate...
Associated Press via USA TODAY LONDON (USA Today) — Buckingham Palace expressed its disappointment Saturday with a tabloid newspaper for publishing images of a young...
Tim Kenneally, THE WRAP (TheWrap.com) — The Los Angeles Times has just learned a valuable lesson: Don’t mess with Black Twitter. While other major newspapers...
Romain Dillet, TECHCRUNCH (TechCrunch.com) — Streaming services like Netflix are great, but you often end up watching the same blockbuster movies showing how a white...
David Bauder, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — One of the challenges for makers of the MTV documentary “White People” was getting folks to talk...
Genaro C. Armas, Associated Press via THE DETROIT FREE PRESS (The Detroit Free Press) — The great thaw is nearly complete. The big weekend in...
Tre’vell Anderson, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (The Los Angeles Times) — The year of diversity in television is in full swing. Cemented by history-making Emmy...
Niall Stanage, THE HILL WASHINGTON (The Hill) — Bernie Sanders is making a push for support from black and Hispanic voters as he seeks to...
Greg Lacour, REUTERS COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) — A Ku Klux Klan chapter and an African-American group plan overlapping demonstrations on Saturday outside the South Carolina...
Jennifer Schuessler, THE NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — “Between the World and Me,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s meditation on being a black man in...