By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist It has been both interesting and unsettling to watch the attacks from the political Right on the Black Lives Matter...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The Civil Rights Movement in the United States identified a long list of issues that were broadly considered the...
By Phill Wilson NNPA Columnist The world lost a hero, the AIDS community lost a leader, the Black AIDS community lost a giant and many of...
(Miss Open) – “These are the things that make women self conscious, that create the unrealistic ideals of beauty that we have,” Zendaya said on Instagram...
By Grace Boateng Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Houston Forward Times We are gathered here today not to discuss the 20th Anniversary of...
By D. Kevin McNeir Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer When Baltimore native and Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake, 45, stepped to the podium at...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Contributing Writer For the nation’s automakers, diversity is measured in colors and it’s better to be a solid green than a...
(Yahoo) – Ending months of will-he-won’t-he speculation, Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he is not running for president in 2016, saying the process of...
HOUSTON — A 22-year-old Houston man has been charged with murder and aggravated assault in the shooting death of a Texas Southern University freshman and the...
By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American Special to the NNPA News Wire from The St. Louis American Hundreds packed into a church in Bridgeton...
(PC World) – Nvidia on Wednesday laid out its plans to become the “Netflix of games,” with a new streaming service for its line of Shield...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT – The Cadillac Escalade has reached cult status. No other reason explains why the body on frame, three-row sport...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s top leader on Wednesday warned Saudi Arabia of “harsh” measures if the kingdom fails to promptly repatriate the bodies of more...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (The Atlantic) — It didn’t seem like the proper setting for an angry, anti-American firebrand. An amiable crowd was milling around the fellowship...
(CBS News) – Big prizes typically drive a surge in lottery ticket sales, but one entrepreneur hopes to make those long lines at convenience stores disappear,...
(USA Today) – The partnership between Nike and Michael Jordan has grown into the richest deal in sports marketing history — disputed history, it turns out,...
(Sports Illustrated) – Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson thinks NASCAR fans should be allowed to fly Confederate flags on private property, he said at an event with racing...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — In a speech at the 2015 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Week Conference here last...
By Freddie Allen Senior NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite relative improvement in job growth from 2013 to 2014, Black women continue to struggle in...
(Slate) – Early in the morning on Jan. 3, 1984, Janet Burke, a 20-year-old white woman, was opening the day care center where she worked at...
By Pastor E.A. Deckard Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times “It’s not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define...
By James Washington Special to the NNPA from the Dallas Weekly Is it really possible to put your life in the hands of the Lord? To some...
(Bloomberg) – Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose 5 percent in July from the same month in 2014, propelled by improving demand and limited supply....
