By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist After a spirited debate, the South Carolina House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to remove the Confederate battle flag from Statehouse...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist History is more than a cumulative knowledge of the facts of the past. For Black Americans and for...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Racism is flaring its ugly head again on the island of Hispaniola, a Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will provide $32 million in relief to consumers who were caught in a maze of...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “You must register. You must vote. You must learn, so your choice advances your interest and the interest of...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Without argument the sub-prime mortgage crisis was the most devastating economic attack against Black America in history. We saw...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The Confederate battle flag flies over the grounds of the South Carolina state Capitol no more. The end-result of...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Dealing with an Absentee Mother Dear Alma, My best friend and college roommate grew up without her mother. She was...
Paul Wallace and Yinka Ibukun, BLOOMBERG LAGOS, Nigeria (Bloomberg) — Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari replaced the heads of the army, navy and air force on...
Ed Werder, ESPN (ESPN.com) — As the NFL deadline approaches for franchise players to sign multiyear contracts, wide receiver Dez Bryant has attempted to increase the...
Chris Chase, USA TODAY LONDON (USA Today) — Resuming a tradition that had been dormant for decades, Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams hit the dance...
Kelly Cohen, THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER (The Washington Examiner) — What does it mean to be white in America? A new MTV documentary seeks to answer...
Stacy Brown, THE NEW YORK POST (The New York Post) — Bill Cosby’s wife knows her husband is a serial philanderer, but believes his scores...
Aaron Morrison, THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES PHILADELPHIA (The International Business Times) — After a white supremacist gunned down nine worshippers at the historic Mother Emanuel African Methodist...
Adrian Sainz, ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — D’Army Bailey, a lawyer and judge who helped preserve the Memphis hotel where civil rights leader...
By Terry Shropshire Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender CHICAGO (NNPA) — It is a jarring and disquieting sight to see an...
John Marzulli, Ginger Adams Otis, and Stephen Rex Brown, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS NEW YORK (The New York Daily News) — A $5 million...
Pam Belluck, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — Medicare, the federal program that insures 55 million older and disabled Americans, announced plans on...
Carolyn Gregoire, THE HUFFINGTON POST (The Huffington Post) — A growing body of research is finding that diabetes can take as devastating a toll on...
Natalie Finn, ENTERTAINMENT ONLINE (EOnline.com) — When even those producing the interview call it at times “odd and rambling”… You know that what you’re about to...
Sonalee Singh, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES (International Business Times) — Chadwick Boseman is all set to play Black Panther in a movie focusing on that Marvel character....
Tomas Rios, THE DAILY BEAST (The Daily Beast) — Serena Williams is on the cusp of cementing herself as the best, most dominant athlete of her...
Amy Chozick, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — In a speech intended to outline the economic vision she will present throughout...
Patrik Jonsson, THE CHRISTIAN MONITOR ATLANTA (The Christian Monitor) — President Obama pushed Americans to call for stricter gun controls in the wake of the...
