(USA Today) – This has been a big year for Shonda Rhimes, on screen and off. The TV mega-producer, creator of popular dramas Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, became the...
(Politico) – A federal jury’s decision Monday to convict a former CIA officer for leaking top-secret information to a New York Times reporter was a...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – John King, Jr., a highly-respected educator from New York City, says that teachers saved his life...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist NORTHVILLE, Mich. – Honda called it a major minor model change. The automaker increased the fuel economy and added...
By Marquessa LaDawn NNPA Columnist In Atlanta (RHOA) We know the biggest villain is Nene Leakes, who is known for saying just what she feels,...
By Walter L Fields NNPA Columnist The fierce and aligned, if not coordinated, campaign to smear the motion picture “Selma” by suggesting it inaccurately portrays...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Although Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis captured the headlines, it was the death of 26-year-old Jimmie...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist “Where do I start? How about undefinable frustration? It seems we can’t even catch our breath from our first...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Selma’s now for every man, woman and child. Even Jesus got his crown in front of a crowd. They...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist If you haven’t seen the movie “Selma” yet please hurry up and do I and take your family and...
Dear President Obama: We love you. We respect you. We support you. We strongly supported your becoming President and have continued to support you through...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we now have the resources to get...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Has Black America made significant progress politically, socially and economically over the past 50 years? This is not...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week I thought Stevie Wonder gave a great State of the Union Speech. Oops, did I say Stevie Wonder,...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Although a series of civil rights laws were enacted in the 1960s, in the 21st Century many of these victories...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist It has been deeply disturbing to hear and read suggestions that there is something inherently violent in Islam that...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The dominance of social media and our never-ending thirst for faster ways to communicate have relegated many of our people...
WASHINGTON (Rap-Up.com)—The stars gathered in the nation’s capital for BET Honors 2015, which was taped at Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. on Saturday (Jan. 24)....
David Jackson and Bart Jansen, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—The Secret Service said it recovered a 2-foot “quad copter” drone on the grounds of the White...
Mike Snider, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Now that we know what’s on Sling TV, it’s time to figure out who will pay for it. The answer...
Michael A. Fletcher, THE WASHINGTON POST PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, M.d. (The Washington Post)—African Americans for decades flocked to Prince George’s County to be part of...
Michael Lee, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—When Kobe Bryant made his first public comments after signing a two-year extension in November 2013, the Los...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist There is something at work in both the appearance itself of Ana DuVernay’s “Selma” and in the controversy over...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama knocked it out of the park during the State of the Union address. He was strong, progressive,...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist My Husband Holds Grudges Dear Alma, My husband cannot let things go – he holds grudges for way longer than...
