Sandy Cohen, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three black women released movies in 2014, more than ever before in a single year. And one...
Jim Corbett, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Former Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston is mulling whether to participate in throwing drills Saturday in Indianapolis at the NFL...
Bill Keveney, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Despite all the star wattage – Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Pharrell Williams & Co. – at the post-Grammy tribute to Stevie Wonder,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist It’s entirely appropriate that the bigoted antics of Alabama’s conservative, publicity-hound Chief Justice Roy S. Moore in unsuccessfully...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Olivia Juliet Hooker celebrated her 100th birthday on February 12. In 1944, she was among the first five African...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Wife’s Spending Out of Control Dear Alma, I love my wife and we have a great marriage. She’s beautiful, funny,...
Sean Sullivan, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—Capitol Hill adage: Freshman senators should be seen and not heard. That idea has been in decline...
Jenny Barchfield, ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Neuza Maria Terreira loves Carnival so much that neither the pouring rain nor the stench of...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The official sign-up season for President Barack Obama’s health care law may be over, but leading congressional Democrats...
Marc Schneider, BILLBOARD LOS ANGELES (Billboard.com)—Rufftown Entertainment is suing two original members of En Vogue for over $300 million, claiming the R&B group violated an...
Tyler Conway, BLEACHER REPORT (BleacherReport.com)—Floyd Mayweather has not agreed to fight Manny Pacquiao in May. Yet. Speaking on the TNT broadcast of Sunday night’s NBA All-Star...
Zach Stafford, HUFFINGTON POST KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Huffington Post)—Early November 2014, I received an email from a colleague, Randall Jenson, who works for the Kansas...
Samantha Masunaga, L.A. TIMES PASCO, Wash. (The Los Angeles Times)—Several hundred people marched through the streets of Pasco, Wash., on Saturday to protest the fatal...
Julie Pace, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — In 2002, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cast a vote in favor of the Iraq war that would...
Doug Feinberg, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Little League phenom Mo’ne Davis was so impressive on a basketball court she momentarily silenced trash-talking “Wedding...
Marco della Cava, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today)–What’s next, the Apple House? The i-Everything company’s ambitions seem to be growing larger by the day,...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters)—The Palestinian government on Saturday condemned as “terrorism” the killings of three young Palestinian-Americans in North Carolina and called on U.S. authorities...
James Brady, SB NATION (SBNation.com)—Former San Francisco 49ers, and current Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh said Friday that the only thing mutual about his departure from San...
NEW YORK (AP) — Former soap opera actress Victoria Rowell has sued CBS and producers, saying they have kept her off the air as...
Josh Gerstein, POLITICO (Politico)—FBI Director James Comey’s pointed critique of law enforcement’s rocky dealings with African-American communities indirectly called attention to an uncomfortable fact: The...
Michael A. Fletcher, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Capital Savings Bank opened shop in Washington in 1888, making it the nation’s first black-owned bank at...
Nate Cohn, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Last month, I wrote an article titled “Evidence That the Jim Crow Era Endures for Older Black...
JACKSON, Miss. (NPR.com)—Here’s an astonishing speech by U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, one of just two African-Americans to have ever served as federal judges in Mississippi....
ROME (Crux Now) — Because he’s such a beguiling media personality, Pope Francis says and does lots of things that get spun as revolutionary but...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is making it easier to plan for your online afterlife. The world’s biggest online social network...
