(The Daily Beast) – For 21 years, death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning has waited for a DNA test to prove his innocence. In 1994,...
(CNN) – Prosperity gospel pastor Creflo Dollar responded recently to critics of his campaign to buy a very pricey Gulfstream G650. Dollar noted in a...
TALI ARBEL, AP Business Writers MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — What killed Comcast’s $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable? Regulators’ desire...
(BBC) – Portugal is often praised for its success in integrating immigrants but in the suburbs of Lisbon police are being accused of racism and brutality....
(Smithsonian) – My father, a bookish black man old enough to be my grandfather, grew up in Texas while it was still a segregated state....
(Politico) – It took a long ride through the night to get here. They’d started out in Durham, at 1 a.m., Thursday, driving six hours,...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As attorney general Loretta Lynch assumes a portfolio that includes fighting terrorism, preventing cyberattacks and dealing with police and...
Washington (CNN) – For Charles Gladden, home is a makeshift bed on a sidewalk next to D.C.’s McPherson Square Metro Station. He sleeps with his...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — No video captured what happened to Freddie Gray inside the police van where officers heaved...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown’s parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Ferguson on Thursday, opening a new chapter...
NEW YORK (AP) — Hello? Anyone there? Facebook unveiled a new voice-calling app for Android phones on Wednesday, the same day that its WhatsApp messaging...
(USA Today) Question: Can you explain what I need to know about ‘mobilegeddon’ for my website? Answer: It’s not hard to understand the impact that smartphones...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is trying to shake up the wireless phone industry with a low-priced service designed to pressure...
by Johnny Taylor, MIT, MBA Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Over the last group of weeks we have been covering Technology in...
(CBS News) – If you’re hitting the gym every day but don’t see the numbers going down on the scale, you might be going about...
(NBC News) – Vaccine laws across the nation may be toughened, observers say, if California passes a fervently debated bill that would strip parents’ rights to...
(Irish Times) – An experimental Ebola drug cured three monkeys intentionally infected with the virus, according to a study published in Nature magazine. The development...
KEN SWEET, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Chinese are spending trillions of dollars on their credit and debit cards, and U.S. companies are...
MAE ANDERSON, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — EBay plans to grow by thinking small as it prepares for life apart from PayPal. The company...
MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press LEE KEATH, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s chaos has turned it into a lucrative magnet attracting migrants desperate to make the...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Of all the leaders in the 15-nation Caribbean trade bloc, Kamla Persad-Bissessar...
ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press CARSON, Calif. (AP) — A local City Council on Tuesday night unanimously voted to clear the path for a proposed $1.7 billion...
FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — BET is storming out of its corner with its first-ever rounds of professional boxing. The network, which...
