Jeff Amy, ASSOCIATED PRESS STONEWALL, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Sunday night at a baseball park in a small Mississippi town to remember...
Nancy Bernac, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — It’s inevitable: At some point, teenage kids just aren’t that into their parents anymore. President Barack Obama,...
Robyn Dixon, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES NAIROBI, Kenya (The L.A. Times) — It was the bad example, the embarrassment, the painful memory. But when Westgate...
Associated Press via USA TODAY LONDON (USA Today) — Buckingham Palace expressed its disappointment Saturday with a tabloid newspaper for publishing images of a young...
Tim Kenneally, THE WRAP (TheWrap.com) — The Los Angeles Times has just learned a valuable lesson: Don’t mess with Black Twitter. While other major newspapers...
Romain Dillet, TECHCRUNCH (TechCrunch.com) — Streaming services like Netflix are great, but you often end up watching the same blockbuster movies showing how a white...
David Bauder, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — One of the challenges for makers of the MTV documentary “White People” was getting folks to talk...
Genaro C. Armas, Associated Press via THE DETROIT FREE PRESS (The Detroit Free Press) — The great thaw is nearly complete. The big weekend in...
Tre’vell Anderson, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (The Los Angeles Times) — The year of diversity in television is in full swing. Cemented by history-making Emmy...
Niall Stanage, THE HILL WASHINGTON (The Hill) — Bernie Sanders is making a push for support from black and Hispanic voters as he seeks to...
Greg Lacour, REUTERS COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) — A Ku Klux Klan chapter and an African-American group plan overlapping demonstrations on Saturday outside the South Carolina...
Jennifer Schuessler, THE NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — “Between the World and Me,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s meditation on being a black man in...
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A man charged with shooting into Lil Wayne’s tour buses on a Georgia highway called cellphones linked to rappers Young Thug and...
A partnership between the local NAACP and Miami-Dade State Attorney highlights a lack of police prosecution By Derek Joy Special to the NNPA from The...
by Barney Blakeney Special to the NNPA from The Charleston Chronicle It’s been some three weeks since nine worshippers at Emanuel AME Church were gunned down...
(The Washington Post) – Yahoo disclosed last week that African Americans made up just 2 percent of its workers, while Hispanics stood at 4 percent. Those...
DAVID SHARP, Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An orphan who grew up on the streets of Haiti, Daniel Madrigal said he was grateful to find food,...
(Forbes) – Considering the vast amounts of quality television airing at any given time, there are bound to be a number of would-be snubs or omissions...
EL RENO, Okla. (New York Times) — They opened the door to Cell 123, and President Obama stared inside. In the space of 9 feet by 10 feet,...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press EMILY SWANSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as the public remains closely divided about his presidency, Barack Obama is holding on...
(Observer) – Cornel West took to his Facebook page on Thursday afternoon to deliver a blistering takedown of Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose new book, Between the World and Me, came out this...
CHICAGO (WLS) – Newly obtained video shows the arrest of 28-year-old Sandra Bland, a Naperville woman whose death at a Texas jail is being angrily questioned by...
(Daily Kos) – Sandra Bland died in police custody this past Monday. Visiting Texas from Chicago to interview for a college job at her alma...
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white man charged with killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston church will stand trial next July,...
Ani, THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS (The Financial Express) — Sandisk announced a wireless battery-powered USB flash drive to enable sharing, transferring and accessing of photos and...
