By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist While most of the nation has been buried under mountains of snow and slapped in the face by sub-freezing...
By Everett L. Glenn NNPA Guest Columnist Noted sports columnist William Rhoden penned an article a month ago in the New York Times under the...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A new economic analysis by the New York Federal Reserve Bank found fewer foreclosures, bankruptcies and credit card delinquencies....
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Yes, the dot-com era was filled with fraud. One year, we had 14 high tech startups pay sponsorship...
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters)—Namibia’s outgoing president, Hifikepunye Pohamba, has won the Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s $5 million African leadership prize, an award meant to recognize good governance...
Roger Cheng, CNET BARCELONA (CNET.com)—Google will launch a wireless service of its own, but it may be a limited project. Sundar Pichai, senior vice president...
Eric Werner, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Two months into full Republican control of Congress, GOP leaders are struggling to demonstrate they really are in...
David Sommerstein, NPR (NPR.com)—The first black American hockey player in NHL history is telling his story almost 30 years after he retired. Val James was...
David Betancourt, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—“It’s so stupid. It’s like, stop stealing all the white people’s superheroes. Make up your own, you know...
Victoria Dawson Hoff, ELLE MAGAZINE (Elle.com)—Thanks to a couple of probably coincidental sightings of Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio hanging out in the same vicinity, rumors have been...
Rick Hampson, USA TODAY NEW YORK (USA Today)—Our Lady of Vilnius Church, built by families of immigrant Lithuanian longshoremen, started out a century ago as...
Max Kutner, NEWSWEEK (Newsweek)—In 2013, hours before 16-year-old Adrian Alvaresz killed himself during lunchtime in the courtyard of his high school in Texas, he posted a...
Carolyn Said, SAN FRANCISCO GATE (SFGate.com)—Uber and Lyft, the yin and yang of ride-hailing services, seem to have bad news-good news disclosures in tandem. On...
Jason Patinkin, ASSOCIATED PRESS JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency said on Saturday that hundreds of children were abducted two weeks ago...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The United Nations is urging donors, organizations and countries fighting Ebola in West Africa not to give in to complacency as the...
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY (USA Today)—At a time when measles is making a dramatic comeback, a new study finds that more than 70% of children’s...
Zoe Kleinman, BBC (BBC.com)—Furniture giant Ikea has unveiled a range of furniture fitted with wireless charging spots for mobile devices. The Home Smart range will initially...
(The Los Angeles Times)—An officer-involved shooting on Los Angeles’ skid row has captured nationwide attention with cellphone video that shows the incident. Three officers opened...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charmayne “Maxee” Maxwell, a member of the 1990s girl group Brownstone — best known for the hit If You Love Me—...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Among the formal definitions for “acting the fool” are: one who is deficient in judgment, sense or understanding....
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel just got spanked. Despite a campaign war chest of more than $15 million and the support of...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Mother Moved in but Won’t Move Out Dear Alma, My mother and I have a decent relationship. She was on...
Tim Cocks, REUTERS OTUOKE, Nigeria (Reuters)—The most impressive building in Otuoke, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s home town in the oil producing Niger Delta, is the...
Mark W. Sanchez, NEW YORK POST (New York Post)—Marshawn Lynch’s coldness to the media apparently does not extend worldwide. The reticent superstar finally opened up...
Oretha Winston Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender (NNPA)—Bill Duke brings his years of talent and experience to direct and executive produce The Mahalia...
