Women’s History Month “This is the first in a series of articles about laws that have significantly impacted Black women in America.” by Zenitha Prince Special...
The Associated Press Prescription drugs spending jumped 13 percent last year, the biggest annual increase since 2003, according to the nation’s largest pharmacy benefits manager. Express...
(USA Today) – It’s getting tougher for kids to get soft drinks at the fast-food joint. Burger King has dropped fountain drinks from its kids’...
MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writers ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writers The three big credit reporting agencies are making changes that could help steer some consumers clear...
EMERY P. DALESIO, AP Business Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — America’s largest electric company said Tuesday that it will pay nearly $150 million to settle claims...
JERUSALEM (New York Times) — Isaac Herzog was getting nervous about the traffic as his car crawled north out of Tel Aviv, on the campaign trail,...
YAOUNDE (VOA News) – Nigerian Muslims who fled to Cameroon to escape Boko Haram say they are being shunned as suspected sympathizers of the insurgent group....
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — At a private working lunch for the five most powerful members of the United Nations Security Council, the...
GENARO C. ARMAS, AP Sports Writer Conference tournaments will give the nation’s best teams opportunities to boost their credentials to claim one of the four No....
ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Farmers Field had a prime location in downtown Los Angeles, big-time boosters, a builder with an impeccable professional...
KRISTIE RIEKEN, AP Sports Writer Andre Johnson was released by the Houston Texans, and quarterback Ryan Mallett agreed to return to the team on Monday. A...
TAMARA LUSH, Associated Press SPRING HILL, Fla. (AP) — When William and Judy Thompson met comedian Bill Cosby in the late 1980s to discuss their teen...
(Entertainment Weekly) – One of Empire’s most discussed and emotional storylines is undeniably that of Jamal (Jussie Smollett), the gay son of homophobic music titan Lucious Lyon...
by Timothy Cox Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper BALTIMORE — Mention the song “Everybody Plays the Fool,” and an older generation of music lovers will immediately...
BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats on Tuesday accused Senate Republicans who signed a letter to Iran’s leadership of...
JONATHAN MATTISE, Associated Press NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — It’s not just Gov. Scott Walker. Republican lawmakers in statehouses nationwide are working to...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 40 million Americans are in debt thanks to their education, and most of their loans come from...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Donna Edwards of Maryland intends to join the race to replace retiring Sen. Barbara Mikulski, hoping to...
KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Dozens of marchers set out across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge Monday with plans to walk to the Alabama...
Special to the NNPA from the Dallas Examiner CHICAGO – Many packaged meals and snacks for toddlers contain worrisome amounts of salt and sugar, potentially...
(BBC) – Ivory Coast’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for her role in the violence that followed the...
DOUG FEINBERG, AP Basketball Writer Texas Southern imposed its own penalty on the women’s basketball team, withdrawing from the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament that begins Wednesday....
SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The president of the University of Oklahoma severed the school’s ties with a national fraternity on Monday and...
