(Christian Science Monitor) – The US Marine Corps’ first African-American aviator, who broke multiple color barriers on his way to becoming the military branch’s first African-American...
FERGUSON, MO (KTVI) – An arrest has been made in connection with the fatal shooting of a 9-year-old in Ferguson. Ferguson police worked with St. Louis...
ROANOKE, Va. (New York Times) — For two years after losing yet another television job, Vester Lee Flanagan II lived in a nondescript apartment across the...
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sixty years after a black Chicago teenager was killed for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi,...
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) – Friends and fans of an student shot and killed at Savannah State University Thursday night took to social media Friday to mourn the...
MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy likely gained more momentum in the spring than the government previously estimated. The question now...
CLAUDIA LAUER, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Wal-Mart will stop selling the AR-15 rifle and other semi-automatic weapons at its stores because fewer people...
(Forbes) – Companies looking to hire the most promising Millennial talent in emerging markets will want to provide prospective hires with a guarantee of work-life balance...
(Reuters) – As many as 50 corpses were found in a parked truck in Austria on Thursday, and another migrant boat sank off Libya, deepening a...
(Reuters) – Iran appears to have built an extension to part of its Parchin military site since May, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a report on...
(Yahoo) – Folks in Philadelphia still speak with pride about the time Pope John Paul II visited the city in 1979. Next month, a new pope,...
STEVEN WINE, AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — Former NFL tackle Jonathan Martin posted on Facebook that difficulties in the profession led him to attempt suicide...
JANIE McCAULEY, AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Santa Clara County grand jury indicted former San Francisco 49ers defensive lineman Ray McDonald on one...
WILL GRAVES, AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — The crowd around the backup quarterback’s locker was three or four deep. Somewhere in the middle, underneath the...
(Ebony) – When we first met fresh-faced beauty Yaya DaCosta, who became the runner-up on Tyra Banks’s America’s Next Top Model back in 2004, it was clear then that...
(Bossip) – Remember on the “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” reunion when Karlie Redd was adamant that her ex Yung Joc was trying to sleep with her at Yandy and...
KEN DILANIAN, AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — During the 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, State Department officials in Washington were emailing one...
by Karsceal Turner Special to the NNPA from The Florida Courier Is self-defense biblical? Are Christians required to forgive, as in the case of the Charleston...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If you’re driving down a highway, street or tunnel anywhere in North America and you see the...
(The Root) – It’s never much of a surprise when I hear it, but it stings all the same. Freddie Gray would be alive today if...
(Black Enterprise) – Pipeline Fellowship, an angel investing bootcamp for women, has enlisted BeVisible and Black MBA Women as recruitment ambassadors for African American and Latina women. Both organizations will...
(Bloomberg) – The odds are continuing to rise that one of the strongest El Niño events on record will last until early this spring, and some countries could get...
