MILWAUKEE (AP) — Chicago native Jabari Parker has a good idea of how challenging it might be for Milwaukee to face his hometown Bulls in...
ATLANTA (AP) — Bobby Brown’s lawyer issued a statement Monday saying the singer’s daughter has “opened her eyes” nearly three months after being found unresponsive in...
(Us Weekly) – Ariana Grande and Big Sean are breaking free. The fan-favorite couple have split after eight months of dating, their reps confirm exclusively to Us Weekly. “They...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Several residents of a tiny southeast Missouri town said Monday they don’t believe the abrupt resignations of five...
JACQUES BILLEAUD, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The sheriff for metro Phoenix begins a four-day hearing Tuesday that could bring him fines, damage his credibility and...
KELLY P. KISSEL, Associated Press SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Tulsa County volunteer deputy who shot and killed a suspect after mistaking...
DETROIT (USA Today) — A motorist whose arrest was caught on a patrol car video as he was repeatedly punched in the head by an Inkster,...
by Brian E. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call COLUMBIA, S.C. (FinalCall.com) – What began as a minor traffic stop apparently for a...
(BBC) – Ethiopia’s Lelisa Desisa has won the men’s race at the Boston Marathon and Kenya’s Caroline Rotich came first in the women’s race. Rotich took...
by Mary L. Datcher Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender Bill Duke is one of America’s most prolific actors and directors as he continues...
NEW YORK (AP) — Anthony Doerr’s “All the Light We Cannot See” has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The award, announced Monday, went to Doerr’s...
(Salon) – Independent of one’s stance on the rift between Michael Eric Dyson and Cornel West — a rift years in the making and now clearly...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black women working full time earned just 64 cents for every dollar White men made in...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The lawyer for the family of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of spinal injuries during an arrest...
(CBS News) – After a tumultuous high school experience, Long Island senior Daria Rose has a bright future ahead of her: The 18-year-old applied to...
FERGUSON, Mo. (CBS News) – A memorial tree for Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old black man who was killed last summer by a white police officer in...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT (NNPA) – GMC’s 2015 Sierra 2500HD is a serious truck. We had the Denali Crew Cab 4X4 trim...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist It’s jail time for another Real Housewife, this time in Beverly Hills (RHOBH). After defending herself on several episodes and...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist When the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act nearly two years ago in...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When a colleague dropped the line, “You can’t hashtag your way to freedom,” I loved it! I laughed out loud,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Who can I turn to, when nobody needs me? My heart wants to know, and so I must go where destiny...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Financially-troubled Corinthian Colleges, once one of the nation’s largest for-profit colleges, has a new financial hurdle: a $30 million fine....
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I was standing in Jacksonville, Fla. airport awaiting a flight home when I looked up at the television at...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Kaylyn Sigman is a high school senior with big plans. A star soccer player from a poor rural Appalachian...
