NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With his plan for two years of free community college stalled in Congress, President Barack Obama is trying to...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An African-American man on Georgia’s death row is asking the Supreme Court for a new sentencing hearing because a...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A city board approved on Wednesday a $6.4 million settlement with the family of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Flanked by images of the nine men and women at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., and...
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — BMW has agreed to pay $1.6 million and provide job opportunities for dozens of former black employees who said they were victims...
HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For stretches of the 27th edition of Williams vs. Williams, Venus gave Serena all she could handle....
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (USA Today) — Sharp differences exist between the way blacks and whites view the treatment of blacks by police, according to a poll being released Wednesday by...
(CNN) – Alex Stone knew he had no other choice. The police officer in Clatskanie, Oregon, filed a formal complaint when he allegedly heard the city’s...
Weekend of activities connects generations active in the struggle to protect Black lives by Ashahed M. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call CHICAGO...
by Rev. Manson B. Johnson Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Matthew 16:19-21 Lesson #11 Bible Fact: Jesus expects all of His disciples...
by James Washington Special to the NNPA from The Dallas Weekly This means more to me now than when it was written back in the day....
by Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer As the story goes, according to dictionary.com, the phoenix is a mythical bird with fiery...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis radically reformed the process for annulling marriages Tuesday, overhauling 300 years of church practice by creating...
(Fortune) – This is why we can’t have nice things. About two years after ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden disclosed that the U.S. government had intercepted tens...
(Tech Times) – After attempting and failing to sell pricier tablets to customers, Amazon is reportedly now looking to launch a $50 tablet for budget-conscious customers...
(Engadget) – Google launched Jump, a platform for VR video, back at its developer conference in May — along with a slightly bonkers camera rig called...
(TechCrunch) – Microsoft announced this morning that it purchased cloud security firm Adallom. According to sources familiar with the matter, the deal cost the Redmond-based software giant...
(Slate) – A worrisome new study caught my eye last week as I perused the website of the journal Pediatrics. It was titled “Cognition and Brain...
Special to the NNPA from The Florida Courier Two Edward Waters College (EWC) professors are working to decipher a protein code that could be used to...
By Valecia Weeks Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Have you ever just stopped and taken a close look at the variety of...
(Latinos Health) – Vitamin C is known to provide individuals with enough immune system boost, avoid skin wrinkling, eye problems and prenatal health problems. Most people...
(New York Times) – Media General said on Tuesday that it had agreed to acquire the television, magazine publishing and marketing company Meredith Corporation in a...
(Reuters) – U.S. small business confidence rose modestly in August, suggesting the economy continued to grow at a steady clip halfway through the third quarter. The...
(New York Daily News) – France and Britain offered to welcome a combined 44,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years, as a former State Department...
