By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The racial differential in the poverty rate is staggering. Last time I checked, about 12 percent people in the United...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist For most of the last decade, James Robertson, a 56-year-old Detroiter, walked to work every day. Of course, anyone...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist An Unfair Request Dear Alma, I’m a single mother supporting my three children with no help from my ex-husband. I...
NEW YORK (AP) — About $355 million distributed last week to investors cheated in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme means over half of allowable claims have...
Chris Kay, Bloomberg News via CHICAGO TRIBUNE ABUJA, Nigeria (Chicago Tribune) — Nigeria’s military has six weeks to do what it failed to accomplish in...
Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY (USA Today)—In a short time, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has established himself as the players’ commissioner, the owners’ commissioner, the people’s...
Nia-Malika Henderson, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—While the protests around Ferguson and the Eric Garner case have largely faded from the political discussion and...
Erica Werner and Alicia A. Caldwell, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Spending for the Department of Homeland Security hangs in the balance as Congress fights...
Emily Wagster Pettus, ASSOCIATED PRESS JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Anne Moody, whose memoir “Coming of Age in Mississippi” gave a wrenching account of growing up...
JALEESA JONES, USA Today (USA Today)—#BlackLivesMatter will soon be more than just a Twitter hashtag for students at Dartmouth College. The school will offer a course this...
Larry Altman, DAILY BREEZE MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (Daily Breeze)—A black Manhattan Beach couple said Thursday they believe their race might be the reason someone set...
Nicole Winfield, ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY (AP) — Members of Pope Francis’ sex abuse commission have criticized his remarks that it is OK for parents...
Mike DeBonis, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—The District’s predominantly African American leaders have long taken pains to address the concerns of underrepresented minority...
Mike Snider and Roger Yu, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler on Thursday forwarded his recommendations for new net neutrality rules to...
Christopher S. Rugaber, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The job market remains a frustrating place for America’s 9 million unemployed — perhaps more so as...
Ulf Laessing, REUTERS BEN JAWAD, Libya (Reuters)—Hidden behind a pile of sand, a tank points its gun towards Libya’s biggest oil port on the other...
Jon Wertheim, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (SI.com)—The self-proclaimed Queen City of the Ozarks, Springfield, Mo., sits deep in the beefy midsection of America. It’s no coincidence that...
Dave Birkett, USA TODAY (USA Today)—The lawyer for Detroit Lions running back Reggie Bush said he denies allegations made in a Louisiana courtroom recently that...
Dalatou Mamane, ASSOCIATED PRESS NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — A total of 109 Boko Haram fighters were killed by soldiers responding to attacks on two towns in...
Lynn Elber, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — The civil rights drama “Selma” won top honors at the NAACP Image Awards in a ceremony that...
Mike Lillis, THE HILL WASHINGTON (The Hill)—Leading members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are lining up to skip a coming speech by the prime...
Frances Stead Sellers, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—It’s no secret that the stamp of historic segregation is still seared into black and white Americans’...
Sonya Eskridge Special to the NNPA from the CHICAGO DEFENDER (NNPA)—Black female students are facing two huge institutional challenges as racism and sexism converge in...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has decried the “inhuman” conditions facing migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and has encouraged communities there...
