NEW BOSTON, Tex. (New York Times) — The inmate, dressed in prison whites with a shaved head and incongruously tender eyes behind wire-rimmed glasses, entered the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Black unemployment rate fell to single digits (9.6 percent) in April, for the first time...
(Daily Kos) – We’ve been told, quite frequently and repeatedly that the problems in the black community that we’ve seen in Ferguson and Baltimore recently...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The record high American graduation rate masks large gaps among low income students and those with disabilities compared...
JAY REEVES, Associated Press JEFF AMY, Associated Press HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Marvin Banks’ drug use and drinking had worsened in recent years and he was...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT (NNPA) – Eyebrows raised when Kia announced a little more than one year ago the development of the...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist The drama went to the next level during Part 2 of the RHOA reunion. Phaedra and Kandi finally had it...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The men and women who wear our nation’s uniform are expected to defend our nation at home and abroad. Yet,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist How can you tell when a politician is lying? When he moves his lips. Though originally intended as a...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In December 2009 the airliner I was on touched down in Hanoi, Vietnam. That was my first time to...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist You won’t believe the latest tactics being used by the folks at the national and state levels of the NAACP....
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Are we living in the last days? If so, what are we doing about it? It seems the world is...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The recent Department of Justice report on police and court practices in Ferguson, Mo. put a much needed spotlight...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Considerable fanfare greeted Israel’s airlift of tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews in the 1980s and 1990s. The Israeli government...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, about 1.7 million people will receive their bachelor’s degrees, and another nearly...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Wherever there has been struggle, black women have been identified with that struggle.” – Ella Baker, “The Black Woman...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Our federal government is the biggest consumer of supplies and services in the world. Its procurement laws are...
Cara Anna, ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Refugees and migrants intercepted at sea will not “be sent back against their will,” the European Union’s...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — From contraception to colonoscopies, the Obama administration Monday closed a series of insurance loopholes on coverage of preventive...
Sarah N. Lynch and Jason Lange, REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Federal Reserve drew together extensive plans for handling a U.S. debt default that included...
Nate Raymond and Jonathan Stempel, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) — A U.S. judge on Monday ruled that Nomura Holdings Inc (8604.T) made false statements in...
Christine Armario and Sally Ho, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW CUYAMA, Calif. (AP) — Nestled between mountains 60 miles from the nearest city, students at rural...
Evan Serpick, ROLLING STONE BALTIMORE (Rolling Stone) — Two weeks after protests in Baltimore brought national attention to the death of Freddie Gray while he...
Mark Puente and Meredith Kohn, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — When Baltimore State’s Attorney Maryliyn Mosby charged six police officers in the...
