CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Prosecutors sought to keep the last of the “Angola Three,” Albert Woodfox, behind bars...
BRIAN MAHONEY, AP Basketball Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — For the sixth consecutive year, the NBA Finals are tied after two games. Sometimes that means a long...
(Bloomberg) – In Georgia’s Gwinnett County where Republicans rule, few really love Obamacare. Few want to lose it either. In parts of the county, about...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – More than 1.9 million Black Americans work in retail, accounting for 11 percent of the industry’s total workforce....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia street performer who gained national attention for his performance on “The Voice” has died. Anthony Riley was 28. The medical...
(The Washington Post) – The host of a Texas pool party that led to the suspension of a police officer says things took a turn for the violent...
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — It didn’t take long for a grand jury in South Carolina to indict a white former city policeman...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Cleveland.com) – A group of community leaders, clergy and civil rights activists on Tuesday plan to announce they’ve filed affidavits seeking charges against two Cleveland...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After falling into the single digits in April, the Black unemployment rate increased to 10.2 percent...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT (NNPA) – The Toyota Prius has been around for 15 years. It was the first hybrid on the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The indictment of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert and the disclosure that he may have been sexually involved with...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “In the Northern states, we are not slaves to individuals, not personal slaves, yet in many ways we are slaves...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Three recent and separate enforcement actions involving federal and state agencies together prove how coordinated efforts against housing and credit...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In the context of the responses to the lynchings of African Americans by police and racist citizenry, greater and...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In his speech the night before his murder Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. repeated the Biblical parable of the...
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:...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The Environmental Protection Agency is the “Air Police” for the federal government. It enforces regulations and rules that are...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist This week was interesting because all of my favorites seem to have something in common. It was about the struggle...
Karl Ritter, ASSOCIATED PRESS STOCKHOLM (AP) — When leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy countries pledge to “decarbonize” the global economy they’re talking...
Scott Webster, CNET (CNET.com) — For the third year in a row, AT&T has nabbed exclusive rights to a rough-and-tumble version of the Samsung...
Mike Snider, USA TODAY (USA Today) — Showtime’s new standalone Net video offering will be hitting Roku set-top boxes and Sony’s PlayStation Vue service...
Jonathan Allen, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) — It has become a recurrent moment in Hillary Clinton’s speeches as she campaigns for the presidency: softening...
Jessica Guyunn, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — Apple, famous for parading white male executives across the stage at its annual Worldwide Developers...
Anne Flaherty, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government will erase much of the debt of students who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges,...
