HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA, Associated Press BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Militia fighters have released a government minister seized more than two weeks ago in Central African...
BRETT MARTEL, AP Sports Writer BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Frustrated by the way his undefeated Kentucky Wildcats were playing, coach John Calipari starting fist-pumping facetiously...
February 8, 2015, I appreciate your bringing a group of congresspersons and other dignitaries each year to Selma and other places in Alabama for...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A poll says Pennsylvanians overwhelmingly want Penn State to put back a statue of former football coach Joe Paterno that was removed...
RUSTY MILLER, AP Sports Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An uppercut and three follow-up punches made James “Buster” Douglas a household name. And 25 years later,...
NORWOOD, Mass. (AP) — Malcolm Butler has intercepted the delivery of Tom Brady’s new truck. Brady earned the prize for winning the Super Bowl MVP...
ATLANTA (AP) — One of Bobbi Kristina Brown’s neighbors reported a domestic dispute at her address the week before she was found face-down in a...
(Entertainment Weekly) – Selma director Ava DuVernay is taking her talents to the small screen to direct CBS’ For Justice pilot. For Justice is based on James Patterson’s The Thomas Berryman Number, a...
MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The official after-party for the Grammy Awards was a tribute concert for Stevie Wonder. Beyonce, Lady Gaga,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is disputing a longtime aide’s view that Obama feigned opposition to gay marriage, compromising his true beliefs out...
DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — As businesses were burned and looted in Ferguson, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was inundated with messages...
(The Washington Post) – Jeb Bush accepted the resignation late Tuesday of the digital guru he had recruited for his likely 2016 presidential campaign after...
(Salon) – Late last week, on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, a hooded individual distributed fliers and hung posters declaring a war...
ATLANTA, February 11, 2015 – In celebration of Black History Month, Cricket Wireless encourages its employees, customers, fans and followers to engage on social media via Twitter to...
LOS ANGELES (USA Today) — Right from the start, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz acknowledged that he was wading into potentially dangerous territory by holding a...
CHIKA ODUAH, Associated Press YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — When Islamic extremists snatched more than 270 girls from the Chibok boarding school in Nigeria in the dead...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Little League International has stripped Jackie Robinson West of the national title that the Chicago team won last summer...
(BBC) – In 2014 it was the hat that generated the heat. Where did he get it? Was it inspired by a Canadian Mountie or the logo...
(Politico) – The audience for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on March 3 is shaping up to be largely Republican — and...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black criminal defendants accounted for roughly 46 percent of the 125 known exonerations in 2014, the...
COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Criminal charges will be unsealed against a rookie police officer who fired into a darkened stairwell at a...
JACK ELLIOTT JR., Associated Press JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Three young white men who admitted they were out hunting black people to attack when they beat,...
by Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer My favorite topic when I’m invited to speak at health fairs is “Let Not Your...
by Pastor E. A. Deckard Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack...
