Jeremy Kohler, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH CLAYTON, Mo. (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — Dorian Johnson, who was walking with Michael Brown Jr. on Aug. 9...
Kyle Hightower and Mike Schneider, ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKE MARY, Fla. (AP) — A bullet missed George Zimmerman’s head when he was involved in a shooting...
Emily Langer, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — The tempo marking for “We Shall Overcome” reads “moderately slow with determination.” Slowly but with determination...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist There are many different manifestations of racism in America and throughout the world. But there is not a...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “Americans don’t want to imagine that our racist history is actually an ongoing racist reality. We like to look...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Answering my Critics Dear Alma, I have worked for a large cleaning company for the past 17 years. Our supervisor...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s main opposition group on Sunday chose its first black leader at a party congress, seeking to...
Merrill Barr, Forbes (Forbes.com) — Two years ago, NBC released the first trailer for The Blacklist to enormous fan fair mostly fueled by the gravitas...
Justin Neuman, BLEACHER REPORT (BleacherReport.com) — Man, are the NBA playoffs great or what? This weekend’s slate of games featured several crazy buzzer-beaters and a Hall...
Chris Chase, USA TODAY (USA Today) — LeBron James’ buzzer beater in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals was perhaps a season-saving shot that was both...
Allie Malloy and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — Michelle Obama gave an impassioned and personal commencement speech Saturday on the trials she’s faced as the first African-American...
Andrew Knapp, THE POST AND COURIER CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (The Post and Courier) — A Charleston County deputy shouted “show me your hands” and gave...
BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — The Baltimore riots threw a spotlight on the poverty and isolation of the African-American community where the unrest began last...
Abby Phillip, THE WASHINGTON POST ST. LOUIS (The Washington Post) — One woman and her long-lost daughter may have brought a dark chapter from St....
Raymond Wong, MASHABLE (Mashable) — If you thought the $35 Raspberry Pi 2 was a small and cheap computer, think again. Next Thing Co.’s open-source...
Jonathan Paye-Layleh and Krista Larson, ASSOCIATED PRESS MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — On the day Mercy Kennedy lost her mother to Ebola, it was hard to...
Sean Highkin, BLEACHER REPORT CHICAGO (BleacherReport.com) — Derrick Rose didn’t celebrate after he made the biggest shot of his career. With three seconds left in regulation, he sprinted...
Doug Feinberg, ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS (AP) — The WNBA has been thrown into the national conversation about domestic violence and sports, and now is...
James Hibberd, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (EW.com) — Uncle Buck is officially coming to TV. ABC has greenlit to series a reboot of the 1989 John Candy...
Daniel Kreps, ROLLING STONE (Rolling Stone) — Prince will perform at his special Rally 4 Peace event Sunday night in Baltimore, and before he takes the stage,...
Micael Winter, USA TODAY BALTIMORE (USA Today) — The six Baltimore police officers arrested over the death of Freddie Gray asked Friday that charges be...
Jim Suhr and Alan Scher Zagier, ASSOCIATED PRESS FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — To some, a makeshift shrine in the middle of the Ferguson street where...
Jeff Amy, ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The last of 10 young white people who repeatedly assaulted African-Americans in Mississippi’s capital city received the...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will visit a notoriously violent prison in Bolivia, a flood-prone shanty town in Paraguay and a...
(Reuters) – The FBI warned police in Garland, Texas, about three hours before a shooting at a weekend exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad...
