By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist After a 166-day partisan political struggle in the U.S. Senate to confirm the first Black American woman to be...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Glenn Ford, 64, convicted of murder in 1984, spent a quarter-century on the death row of Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison...
Adam Nagourney and Jack Healy, THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPTON, Calif. (The New York Times) — Alysia Thomas, a stay-at-home mother in this working-class city, tells...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist It was opening night for NeNe on Broadway and not a RHOA was in sight. Not surprised! Still, it looks...
Katy Daigle and Binaj Gurubacharya, ASSOCIATED PRESS KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — As the death toll from Nepal’s devastating earthquake climbed past 4,000, aid workers and officials...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Mama taking over the Wedding Hey, Alma – My friend is getting married, I’m in the wedding and I couldn’t...
Mohammed Mukhashaf, REUTERS ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) — The humanitarian situation in Yemen has become catastrophic, relief officials said on Monday, as Saudi-led aircraft pounded Iran-allied Houthi...
Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (USA Today) — I’ve spent four days with the new Apple Watch, and have finally worked out the learning...
Timothy Rapp, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today) — For at least the next two seasons, quarterback Robert Griffin III will be under contract with Washington after the...
Howard Fendrich, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — At age 37, Paul Pierce is having a grand ol’ time on this playoff run with the...
Mark Sherman, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Just two years ago, the Supreme Court struck down part of the federal anti-gay marriage law that...
Rishi Iyengar, TIME (TIME) — The man hardly ever tweets, so when he does, you can bet he’s feeling it. Shawn Carter, a.k.a. Jay Z, doesn’t...
David Jackson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today) — President Obama hit all the right notes during his routine Saturday at the White House correspondents’ dinner, hitting...
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, THE NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — With the words “black lives matter” projected in capital letters on the walls,...
John Bacon, USA TODAY BALTIMORE (USA Today) — The Baltimore Police Department said Monday it had received a “credible threat” that local gangs were targeting...
Timothy Williams, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — Police departments around the country have been moving with unusual speed to equip officers with...
Daniel Flynn, REUTERS THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (Reuters) — After being repatriated to Senegal on a Spanish military plane having risked his life on a perilous sea crossing...
Lyle Fitzsimmons, BLEACHER REPORT (BleacherReport.com) — It took five-plus years. There were a handful of maddening false starts and what often appeared to be permanent...
Brian Phillips, GRANTLAND (Grantland.com) — There are slideshows on the Internet of the house, stately and fountained, where Stephen Curry lived as a boy —...
Lydia O’Connor, THE HUFFINGTON POST (The Huffington Post) — Barbie just got a whole lot more badass. Mattel announced Friday that the company is honoring...
Natalie Robehmed, FORBES (Forbes.com) — The Academy Award-winning epic Selma is on its way to the classroom. Paramount Home Media Distribution announced today that every...
Carrie Johnson, NPR (NPR.com) — “Hey,” the attorney general said as he walked into his final meeting with senior staffers Friday morning. “Let’s do this...
David Frum, THE ATLANTIC (The Atlantic) — Today was the latest installment of the never-ending Clinton scandal saga, but it won’t be the last. Yet in...
Michael Eric Dyson, THE NEW REPUBLIC (The New Republic) — There has been a great deal of commentary about my article on Cornel West published...
Tasbeeh Herwees, GOOD.COM (GOOD.com) — Telling our stories is not just a political necessity, but also an opportunity for catharsis and public healing. Which is why...
