By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Now it is Baltimore. There Freddie Gray, a Black man, was stopped on the street, pinned to the...
David Dishneau and Joyce M. Rosenberg, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Richard Sung Kang’s American dream came crashing down in a shower of broken glass....
Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul, ASSOCIATED PRESS MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Scores more women and children have been rescued from Islamic extremists in the remote...
Hippolyte Marboua and Angela Charlton, ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Residents of a squalid refugee camp said Thursday that French soldiers tasked with...
Elizabeth Chuck and Emmanuelle Saliba, NBC NEWS (NBC News) — R&B legend Ben E. King, best known for his hit song “Stand By Me,”...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When teachers harbor subconscious racial bias, they are far more likely to discipline White students less...
Ben Nuckols and Amanda Lee Myers, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s chief prosecutor, just 35 years old and on the job for less than...
Meredith Cohn, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — When some medical experts look at the choppy, grainy video of Freddie Gray’s arrest, they...
Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY BALTIMORE (USA Today) — Thursday night, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts walked alongside dozens of officers asking people to go home...
Juliet Linderman and Amanda Lee Myers, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s top prosecutor announced criminal charges Friday against all six officers suspended after a...
(Venture Beat) – Facebook is out to kill Google. There, I said it. You probably think I’m crazy, but there are a bunch of macro-trends...
(Engadget) – Secret, the app that was practically synonymous with the anonymous-app movement, is shutting down. David Byttow, Secret’s co-founder and CEO, explained in a...
CURT ANDERSON, AP Legal Affairs Writer FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — One man ran naked through a Florida neighborhood, tried to have sex with a tree...
(ABC News) – The Food and Drug Administration today approved a new drug that promises to get rid of double chins without surgery. The drug is...
(Huffington Post) – Think about this: more than 4 in 10 people in the United States live in counties that have unhealthy levels of either...
(Nature World Report) – Teenagers, with their innate drive to do things that will come as close as possible to killing them without actually doing...
(Bloomberg) – The American job market shows signs of entering a new stage that will bolster households as employers fight to retain and attract workers...
(Bloomberg) – Las Vegas hotel prices have dropped an average of $150 a night for this weekend as many boxing fans realize they won’t get...
SAM HANANEL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that federal judges have authority, though limited, to make sure the Equal Employment...
(Bloomberg) – Hundreds of crashes involving defective cars are going unreported each year because under U.S. safety rules automakers aren’t required to report suspicious accidents...
(BBC) – Kenya’s interior minister has said security officers ignored intelligence reports prior to the attack on Garissa University College earlier this month. Joseph Nkaisserry, who...
(BBC) – At least 200 Senegalese died in the boat disaster off the coast of Libya earlier this month, officials say. More than 750 migrants are...
(Los Angeles Times) – Another Vietnam. Those two words have become a cautionary mantra over the 40 years since the fall of Saigon indelibly etched...
