(The Washington Post) – President Obama brought six books with him on his summer vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. And if he started reading at noon on...
TOM FOREMAN Jr., Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — As prosecutors attempted to discredit him, a white Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer completed nearly six hours of testimony...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press GLOUCESTER, Mass. – The young woman nursing a fresh black eye has come to the police station in this old fishing...
DON THOMPSON, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hugo Pinell, a notorious killer with ties to the 1960s and 1970s black revolutionary movement, spent the last...
BRANDON BAILEY, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple says it more than doubled the numbers of women, blacks and Hispanics hired in the last...
(The Washington Post) – On July 31, the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad published a review of several books on race and racism in the United States. The series, written...
(The Michigan Chronicle) – Hundreds attended the farewell ceremony of former Detroit Lions running back and Ford dealership owner Mel Farr. Farr’s wife, Jasmine, who is...
(Salon) – The brutal and iniquitous treatment African-Americans suffer at the hands of their criminal justice system has been a chief topic of conversation in the...
(New York Times) – On July 20, 2006, the United States Senate voted to renew the Voting Rights Act for 25 more years. The vote was unanimous,...
(Brookings Institution) – Last Saturday, Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator running to the left of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, was confronted at a...
(The Huffington Post) – The Chicago Tribune apparently decided the approaching 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina was a great hook for an op-ed extolling the cleansing...
MARTHA BELLISLE, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An anti-Muslim group cannot post ads on buses in Washington state showing photos of wanted terrorists and wrongly claiming...
RYAN NAKASHIMA, AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rdio, the music subscription service backed by Skype co-founder Janus Friis, is partnering to bring simulcasts of...
(NDTV) – Bumping up the level of security for its users, Dropbox has announced U2F or Universal 2nd Factor security keys that would offer “stronger authentication protection.” The...
(NDTV) – Soon after the announcement of its new CEO Sundar Pichai and a holding company called Alphabet, the Google Life Sciences team has teamed up with a healthcare...
London (Live Mint) – Listening to music before, during and after surgery reduces patients’ pain, eases anxiety and lessens the need for painkillers, British scientists said...
(CBS News) – Lyme disease may be grossly under-reported in the United States. Government researchers say the tick-borne infection affects about 10 times as many Americans as previously...
Dubai (Gulf News) – Saturated fats are one of the main building blocks of many cellular structures in the human body and should be consumed in...
(Reuters) – U.S. retail sales rebounded in July as households boosted purchases of automobiles and a range of other goods, suggesting the economy was growing solidly early in...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — NBCUniversal is investing $200 million in digital media company Vox Media, whose brands include news site Vox,...
(Forbes) – While Donald Trump dominated last week’s GOP debate, two of the GOP candidates tried to talk seriously about Social Security’s future. New Jersey Governor...
(BBC) – Guinea-Bissau’s President Jose Mario Vaz has dismissed the government following a rift with Prime Minister Domingos Pereira. The two men are said to have...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Boko Haram has a new commander willing to negotiate with Nigeria’s new government, Chad’s President Idriss Deby announced...
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief has fired the head of the peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic over the...
BRIAN MAHONEY, AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — LeBron James said Wednesday his health and his family will determine whether he tries for a record...
