By Dwight Brown NNPA Travel Writer MIAMI (NNPA) – The likely anecdote for winter melancholia is a trip to a warm climate. Miami comes to mind....
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Black unemployment rate fell slightly from 10.4 percent in December to 10.3 percent in...
(Daily Mail) – Relatives of Bobbi Kristina Brown, who has been in a medically induced coma for more than 10 days, have reportedly agreed to let...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Blacks and Latinos are incarcerated at disproportionately higher rates in part because police target them...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent SECOND IN A SERIES WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The first time Tiffany Perry learned about her conception, she was too innocent...
DALLAS (New York Times) — A block from the tourist-swarmed headquarters of the former Texas School Book Depository sits the old county courthouse, now a museum....
(CNN) – Owning a home is key to unlocking the American dream, but it’s much harder to achieve if you’re black or Hispanic. That’s according...
Jonathan Ellis, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—The U.S. Department of Agriculture is expected to release studies this spring that will provide more information about the...
Neal Bennett, WTLV- and WJXX-TV via USA TODAY JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (USA Today)—A major breakthrough could be coming for patients who suffer from a particularly aggressive type...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams has finally admitted that he had incorrectly asserted that a helicopter he...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist There comes a time in the course of human events for persons who have been mistreated to dissolve the political...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist I believe customs generally fall into three categories: inexcusable, curious if a little questionable, and fascinating. Some customs – the...
Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Whether it is in an inner city neighborhood across America, the Caribbean, in Europe or in a sprawling mass...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The president’s budget released this week proposes billions in critical new federal investments for 2016 and beyond to improve...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Every setback has a major comeback. #GreaterIsComing.” – Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks Quarterback, via Twitter (@DangeRussWilson) Far be it...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist It doesn’t matter that I am just now writing about Super Bowl XLIX—the championship crowning professional football game that more...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Maybe it has always been like this. If so, I am not sure precisely what triggered my new concern....
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist In December, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard arguments in the long- running patent war...
Samantha Murphy Kelly, MASHABLE (Mashable.com)—It’s been rumored there could be more than one version of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphone, but now it looks...
Nekesa Mumbi Moody, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyonce gave a resplendent rendition of “Precious Lord, Take My Hand” at the Grammys but it...
Aaron Beard, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP)—Dean Smith accomplished so much on and off the court during his time as North Carolina’s coach, leaving a lasting influence both...
Kevin Ding, BLEACHER REPORT CLEVELAND (BleacherReport.com)— For everything that didn’t happen for Kevin Love in Minnesota, starting and ending with the lack of winning, most people...
Paul Hampel, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (STLToday.com)—Federal class-action lawsuits filed Sunday against the cities of Jennings and Ferguson allege that jails there operate as...
Felicia Fonseca, ASSOCIATED PRESS FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The rolling hills of northeastern Arizona where cornfields lined a watering hole and sheep grazed in the...
