MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Bobbi Kristina Brown has been moved to hospice care after months in the hospital, and a lawsuit...
LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — PBS put its “Finding Your Roots” series on hold Wednesday after determining an episode that omitted references...
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press DAVID ESPO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a triumph of divided government, the Republican-controlled Congress passed major trade legislation Wednesday that...
ROBERT BURNS, National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army on Wednesday defended its past practice of naming forts and posts after Confederate Army generals, saying...
AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were convicted Wednesday in federal court in the beating of a...
By Matthew C. Whitaker NNPA Guest Columnist On Wednesday, June 17, Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old White supremacist, massacred nine Black worshipers in the historic Emanuel African...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The savage act of racial terrorism at Emanuel A.M.E. Church – Mother Emanuel – in Charleston, S.C., has been...
(Salon) – In the days since Dylann Roof murdered nine people, all African-American, in a church in South Carolina, the national conversation has largely concentrated on...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic Sometimes artistry and insanity are so intertwined you can’t distinguish between them. That was the challenge for singer Nina Simone;...
(CNN) – Michael Jackson died June 25, 2009, but for many of his fans, it feels like yesterday. From the radio to the Internet, the...
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. (USA Today) – A lawsuit filed by Bobbi Kristina Brown’s conservator accuses Nick Gordon of abuse and says he took money from her without...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama took on a heckler head-on at a gay pride month reception at the White House Wednesday, scolding the protester...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — His health care legacy secure, President Barack Obama cast Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling upholding Obamacare as a historic and...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies underpinning President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, rejecting a...
(Salon) – On “The O’Reilly Factor” Wednesday night, host Bill O’Reilly had what could charitably be called a tantrum — if any of his viewers...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander H. Stephens, onetime vice president of the Confederacy, sits memorialized in stone, right leg crossed over left, staring...
(New York Times) – Many of the nation’s racial disparities stem from the simple economic fact that white families make more money than black families on...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black victims accounted for nearly 60 percent of the justifiable homicides committed with firearms in...
by Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer What an exciting weekend we just had, me and my two co-hosts, Pat Cannady and...
by Pastor E.A. Deckard Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Forward Thinkers, we all have heard the bible says, “So as a man...
by James Washington Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times At times, it is ironic to me that so many different churches profess the...
JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Amid national debate over holding officers criminally accountable for killings by police, New York is giving such cases...
(AFR) – It’s been on the iPhone since Adam was a boy: the simple button that meant, no matter how lost you were inside your...
(TechCrunch) – Groupon’s deal-finding iOS application was updated today to include support for Apple Watch. Like many Watch apps, Groupon’s takes advantage of its ability to tap...
