By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist We all know of the recent horror of a North Charleston, S.C. police officer deciding to murder an unarmed...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist On October 16, we will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March. In the subsequent two...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist My Niece Didn’t Invite Me to Her Wedding Dear Alma, I have never been this shocked and pissed all at...
Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY NEW YORK (USA Today) — Coincidence of timing? Only days before a certain high-profile smart timepiece begins shipping, Google is...
Elias Meseret, ASSOCIATED PRESS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Many in Ethiopia are reeling from the news that several Ethiopians were killed in Libya by...
Jimmy Golen, ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON (AP) — Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won his second Boston Marathon on Monday, two years after he donated the medal...
Adam H. Beasley, THE MIAMI HERALD MIAMI (The Miami Herald) — A running joke in NFL circles is that, in the eyes of coaches, while...
Andrew Seligman, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — Through three long years of knee surgeries and recoveries, the Chicago Bulls waited for this. And when the...
Janelle Griffith, NJ.com (NJ.com) — Nearly three months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub, Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and...
By Veronica Hilbring Special to the NNPA from The New Pittsburgh Courier (NNPA) — TIME Magazine revealed its 12th annual 100 list of the...
Daniel Politi, SLATE WASHINGTON (Slate) — President Obama offered support for decriminalizing medical marijuana, as well as an overall change in the way the country...
Michael Eric Dyson, THE NEW REPUBLIC (The New Republic) — “Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned” is the best-known line from William Congreve’s The...
Ben Brumfield, CNN BALTIMORE (CNN) — Freddie Gray was in perfect health until police chased and tackled him in Baltimore over a week ago, his lawyer...
Sam Roberts, THE NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., the first surgeon to successfully implant an automatic heart defibrillator...
Kelli Kennedy and Gary Fineout, ASSOCIATED PRESS TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday he is suing the Obama administration for withholding...
Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY VENICE BEACH, Calif. (USA Today) — Imagine a world in which CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox shows are all only available...
Ed Cropley, REUTERS PRETORIA, South Africa (Reuters) — South Africa sought diplomatic support from countries across the continent on Friday to defeat the “demon” of...
Darren Rovell, ESPN (ESPN.com) — Nike has likely assured itself of the top overall pick in the NFL draft. The world’s largest shoe and apparel...
Baxter Holmes, ESPN (ESPN.com) — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, is expected to make a full recovery after undergoing quadruple coronary bypass surgery...
By Victoria T. Davis Special to the NNPA from The Indianapolis Recorder (NNPA) — During summers in Creston, S.C., Malcolm Franklin sharpened his jockey skills. While...
Yesha Callahan, THE ROOT (The Root) — R&B singer Johnny Kemp, best known for his hit song “Just Got Paid,” died Thursday at the age...
Hansi Lo Wang, NPR NEW YORK (NPR.com) — An obscure but riveting genre of theater is being revived in New York City. They’re called “anti-lynching...
B.G. Henne, A.V. CLUB (A.V. Club) — Variety is reporting that How To Get Away With Murder’s Aja Naomi King has been cast opposite Armie Hammer...
Steven J. Horowitz, BILLBOARD LONDON (Billboard) — For her thirteenth studio album The London Sessions, Mary J. Blige made a hard left. Bored with the...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — With a tone of outrage and eye-rolling dismissiveness, President Barack Obama and his White House team are working...
