DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some teenagers get driving lessons from their parents. Other teens are taught by licensed instructors. But Malia Obama isn’t...
Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News “When an old person dies, a library burns” … so goes the African proverb. March...
NNPA Rededicates Media Lab at HU’s School of Communications by Sarafina Wright Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer The National Newspaper Publishers Association rededicated...
JACK GILLUM, Associated Press JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Police Department has an agreement with the U.S. government to withhold certain information...
(Raw Story) – Mumia Abu-Jamal, the journalist and former Black Panther convicted for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, had his death sentence...
(SB Nation) – The biggest story in Jameis Winston’s career so far hasn’t been his on-field prowess, but the fact that he was accused of rape....
by Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic It’s an urgent escape. Like the Jewish people leaving Germany in the face of imminent death. Only, this journey to...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Nothing has done more to fuel the national debate over police tactics than the dramatic, sometimes grisly videos: A man gasping...
by Barney Blakeney Special to the NNPA from The Charleston Chronicle CHARLESTON, S.C. – Leaders of local civil rights organizations had been taking a wait-and-see approach...
EXCLUSIVE: Witness who recorded the deadly police shooting of #WalterScott speaks out. @LesterHoltNBC reports: https://t.co/wzf03DIghR — NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) April 8, 2015 (The Washington Post)...
MITCH WEISS, Associated Press MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The white South Carolina police officer charged with murder for shooting an unarmed...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The law gives police officers latitude to use deadly force when they feel physically endangered, but there’s far less...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — The U.S. government started keeping secret records of Americans’ international telephone calls nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,...
ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tired of those annoying, sometimes costly, robocalls favored by scammers? The Federal Communications Commission is being asked to consider...
(New York Times) – It took three days — three long, often confusing and frustrating days — for me to fall for the Apple Watch. But once I...
(HelpMeOutDoc.com) – This allergy season seems more potent than usual, causing watering eyes and itchy nose symptoms with increased intensity, experts warn. Dr. Ty Coleman...
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Global warming isn’t just affecting the weather, it’s harming Americans’ health, President Barack Obama said Tuesday as he announced steps government and businesses will...
ALISHA GREEN, Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Chronic understaffing and police attitudes toward victims contributed to thousands of rape kits going untested for years in...
(Reuters) – Stepped-up business hiring pushed the rental price of U.S. office space up 3.1 percent in the first quarter, the highest quarterly gain in...
(UN.org) – Officials welcomed the unveiling at the world body’s New York headquarters of a permanent memorial to the victims of slavery and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade...
(Reuters) – Kenya needs more help from its U.S. and European allies with intelligence and security measures to help prevent further massacres by Somali militants, Foreign...
(Telegraph) – France on Tuesday declassified documents in the presidential archives relating to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which Kigali accuses Paris of having an indirect role. A...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — On his first state visit to South Africa since 1994, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday pleaded...
DOUG FEINBERG, AP Basketball Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies are a perfect 10. The Hall of Fame coach joined some...
DAVE SKRETTA, AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Nobody will hang any nets to replace the ones Duke cut down Monday night for several months, giving...
