Killing Dylann Roof Won’t Kill White Supremacy

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dylann Roof, the unrepentant racist who killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. is,...

America’s Crumbling Infrastructure Is a Clear and Present Danger

By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. (Founder and President of Rainbow PUSH Coalition) America is literally falling apart. In Flint, Mich., children were poisoned by the lead...

Cop Killings Bear Strange Fruit for the Families of Black Victims

By Jeffrey L. Boney (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I’m about to be extremely facetious! We’re Black, right? We all like a “hook-up” on something every now...

“Roots” Remake Targets Younger Audience

By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire National News Editor) Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose admitted that she questioned why Mark Wolper, the son of the...

Judith Jamison, Maurice Hines Honored at 34th annual Fred and Adele Astaire Awards

By Joan H. Allen (Associate Publisher, Daily Challenge) The Fred and Adele Astaire Awards, which honors outstanding dance and choreography on stage and screen, recently announced...

Former Deputy White House Counsel Cassandra Butts Dies at 50

[THEROOT.COM] Cassandra Quin Butts, the former Deputy White House Counsel and nominee to the Ambassadorship to the Bahamas, died suddenly on Thursday. She was 50 years...

To Be Equal: 5 Things You Need to Know about Vernon Jordan, the “Rosa Parks of Wall Street”

By Marc Morial (President and CEO of the National Urban League) “Don’t just give us money, and don’t just show up for the Equal Opportunity Day...

New Voting Rights Caucus Created in Congress

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) Election day November 8, 2016 will be the first Presidential election in 50 years without the full...

The Essence of the New Black History Museum Is the True American Story

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WATCH: The Crazy Origin Story of the Jordan Crying Meme and Why the Internet Won’t Let It Go

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Meek Mill Disses Drake on Fiery ‘All The Way Up’ Remix

[ROLLINGSTONE.COM] Meek Mill and Fabolous join forces for a remix of “All The Way Up,” the Fat Joe and Remy Ma single that also recently received...

Microsoft will no longer let you use ‘12345’ as your password

[MASHABLE.COM] The golden age of passwords is coming to a close. The change started when websites started rating passwords as we were creating them, trying to...

Best Detailed 2016 Walkaround Hyundai Sonata Sport

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Veterans Choice Program: Helping Our Troops Access the Care They Deserve

By Dr. Patricia Maryland (NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist) Since 1999, May has been designated as National Military Appreciation Month, an opportunity for Americans to show...

Gospel Singer Kathy Taylor Ministers to the World through her Music

By Jeffrey L. Boney (Houston Forward Times, NNPA Member) When you think of the best in the world of art, names such as John Biggers, Augusta...

My boyfriend insisted a gun would keep us “safer” up until the day he shot me in the face

[QZ.COM] I met Kenny in June of 2009. I was 22 and he was 34. I am a blues singer—he’d seen me at one of the...

Xerox’s Ursula Burns is the only black woman running an S&P 500 company—and she’s stepping down

[QZ.COM] When Ursula Burns was named CEO of Xerox in 2009, she was heralded as the first black woman to lead an S&P 500 company. No...

CBC Members Worry Proposed FCC Rule Could Hurt Black Media Companies

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) In an unpredictable, disruptive media environment featuring new ways for consumers to receive video content over Wi-Fi, apps...

Judge: Bill Cosby to Stand Trial for Assault Charges

[CNN.COM] Norristown, Pennsylvania (CNN)More than a decade after he was first accused of sexual misconduct, Bill Cosby will go to trial. A Pennsylvania judge found enough...

The NFL Tried to Fund Government’s Concussion Research to Influence It

[MARKETWATCH.COM] There are a lot of reasons the National Football League might want to influence the findings of government research into brain injuries. A new congressional...

U.S. Lawmakers, Mentors Reach Out to Young, Black Males at Recent Forum

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) hosted a recent summit on Capitol Hill focused on mentoring for African American males....

GAO Report: Segregation Increasing at Some U.S. Schools

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) A recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the segregation of African American and Hispanic...

Mahmud-Bey Wants to Kick Hollywood’s Doors Open for Aspiring Actors

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Contributing Writer) First Detroit, then Hollywood, Washington D.C and the world. Before long, if the president of 25th Frame Films has...

Liberals Fumble the Ball When It Comes to the Redskins

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I constantly tell my readers to always remember the key tenant of liberalism is “intent, not result.” To a...