by Roberto Alejandro Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper A recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found people with HIV develop cancer...
(Reuters) – Apple Inc.’s much-hinted-at TV service may soon become a reality as the iPhone maker is in talks with programmers to offer a slimmed-down bundle...
SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) — Landmark buildings across Ireland and the world have been floodlit green for St. Patrick’s Day as global celebrations of...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) – Pakistani officials say they have executed 12 people in the country’s single-largest day of executions, after a nationwide ban on the death...
STEPHEN HAWKINS, AP Basketball Writer The NCAA is going all in on high-def video reviews during March Madness. For the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments that...
(The Huffington Post) – Shonda Rhimes proved long ago that she is a force to reckon with. The growing influence she has had in television...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Bolstered by a spate of upbeat economic news, President Barack Obama is claiming the upper...
(Huffington Post) – President Barack Obama told Vice News in an interview released on Monday that it was “disturbing” that the chair of the Senate Committee on...
(The Root) – The voter-ID war just opened up a huge new front. This time in Tennessee. A group of nine students from HBCUs Fisk...
(The Huffington Post) – An internal meeting with Starbucks employees held three months ago stirred a powerful discussion on race in America. It has since prompted the...
Frances Robles, THE NEW YORK TIMES PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (The New York Times)— With a brisk clap of his hands, Michel Martelly summed up the first steps...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Julie Pace, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 16 million Americans have gained coverage since President Barack Obama’s health care law...
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—An American being treated for Ebola was in critical condition Monday, the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Maryland said. The healthcare worker was...
Stacey Tisdale, BLACK ENTERPRISE (BlackEnterprise.com)—One of the four directives of the Student Aid Bill of Rights President Obama announced this week says every student in...
Seth Fiegerman, MASHABLE HANOVER, Germany (Mashable.com)—The future of payments may be staring us right in the face. Alibaba, the Chinese ecommerce giant with more money...
Genetta M. Adams, THE ROOT AUSTIN, Tx. (TheRoot.com)—While the tech industry continued to try to figure out what to do about its diversity problem, 50 high...
Candice Choi, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald’s workers in 19 cities filed complaints over burns from grease, a lack of protective equipment and...
Vindu Goel, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—With 1.39 billion active users worldwide, Facebook’s social network is the closest thing we have to a...
Kimberly Hefling and Jesse J. Holland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Their reputations sullied by race-tainted incidents, many colleges are clamping down on campus fraternities....
Cory Townes, EBONY (Ebony.com)—This story starts with a conversation in Brooklyn roughly last week. “Yo, you know what this means?” “No, what?” “This time next week,...
Dalton Ross, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (EW.com)—[SPOILER ALERT: Read on only of you have already watched Sunday’s “Spend” episode of The Walking Dead.] Another one bites...
Ryan Book, THE MUSIC TIMES (MusicTimes.com)—Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were certainly responsibly for the biggest copyright infraction decision of the last week, which allowed...
Burgess Everett, POLITICO WASHINGTON (Politico)—Even as the White House ramps up pressure on Congress to stay out of its negotiations with Iran on a nuclear...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Julie Wolf, THE ROOT (TheRoot.com)—Who was America’s first successful stage magician? He swallowed swords and molten lead. He danced...
Nedra Pickler, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Pointing to increased high school graduation rates, President Barack Obama said Monday he’s prepared to fight with...
