MICHAEL TARM, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board on Monday blocked a historic bid by Northwestern University football players to form the...
(Reuters) – Former National Football League players who oppose the league’s potential $1 billion settlement of lawsuits claiming it hid the risk of concussions asked a...
By Alexis Taylor Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Prince has a message for new artists eager for a record deal: “Don’t sign.” According...
By Troy Tieuel Special to the NNPA from the LA Watts Times Following the death of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968, a school teacher named...
ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge said Monday he will take a week to determine whether to set aside Terrence Howard’s...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Reforms proposed to the Child Tax Credit by the Center for American Progress could help to reduce...
MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, in his first court appearance on federal racketeering charges, proclaimed his innocence Monday and accused...
JULIE BYKOWICZ, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans for Prosperity, one of the biggest outside groups backed by billionaire conservative donors Charles and David Koch, this...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A civil rights law firm has put a Louisiana District Attorney’s Office on notice of a possible lawsuit over allegations the...
(Salon) – In the 1960s, the Lyndon Johnson administration launched an official War on Poverty. Needless to say, poverty has emerged victorious. The noble and necessary...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Today, close to one in four Black children – as young as 2 years old – is...
by Victoria T. Davis Special to the NNPA from The Indianapolis Recorder Within the last few weeks, Dalelynn Bradshaw-Settle, 28, did something she never thought she...
(Slate) – Having a college degree is supposed to insulate you a bit from the worst effects of a recession. But as a new report highlighted in the New York...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – This month, teenagers across the nation prepare to make the transition from high school to college and...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The 12-year-old girl said she had been raped by a foreign soldier, one of many who had come...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Straight Outta Compton” is a box office force. The N.W.A biopic earned $60.2 million in its opening weekend — even more...
(Politico) – Ben Carson’s presidential campaign is surging on a wave of support from socially conservative voters inspired by his passionate talk about faith and his...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Julian Bond, a founding member and communications director of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and immediate...
By Jerry Ford II Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times On the day the family of Sandra Bland filed a lawsuit against the...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist After three days of peaceful demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s fatal shooting in Ferguson, Mo.,...
By Jesse Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The news this weekend that Julian Bond passed away at 75 saddened me deeply. America has lost a true...
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today) — The drug makers of a “little pink pill” touted as a boost for female sexual desire will learn...
Adrienne Green, THE ATLANTIC (The Atlantic) — A few decades have changed a lot about hip-hop, but arguably not that much about America. In 1986,...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Washington Redskins president Bruce Allen made clear Monday the team would not reconsider whether to change the team’s nickname if...
Lindsey Bever, THE WASHINGTON POST NEW YORK (The Washington Post) — A man has been charged in the murder of Edena Hines, the granddaughter of...
