By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Almost daily there is another fatal case of racially-motivated police brutality that occurs against a Black American woman,...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist The Mother Ghost Dear Alma, I have a friend and we’ve known each other most of our lives. We’ve spent...
DANVILLE, Va. (WSET/CNN) — A black delivery driver for Lowe’s says he was told he could not make a delivery because of his race. The home...
Dan Hope, BLEACHER REPORT (BleacherReport.com) — Summer is time for preseason watch lists, where media and NFL scouting departments alike begin compiling databases of players to watch...
Will Graves, ASSOCIATED PRESS CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Teddy Bridgewater didn’t want to talk about the completions. Last the Minnesota quarterback checked, getting the ball...
Jay Boller, CITY PAGES MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (CityPages.com) — Prince managed to make some headlines this past weekend. On Saturday, the Minnesota music legend’s Paisley Park...
Lindsay Zoladz, VULTURE (Vulture.com) — In so many ways, Dr. Dre’s new album, Compton: A Soundtrack, is a pleasant surprise. First, there is the fact that...
Robert Kuttner, THE HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post) — It was a good week for disruptive innovation. Three protestors affiliated with Black Lives Matter shut down...
Robert Draper, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE WASHINGTON (The New York Times Magazine) — Last Friday, during a speech before a virtually all-black audience at...
Dan Merica, CNN NEW YORK (CNN.com) — Hillary Clinton will roll out her college affordability plan Monday, pledging to voters in New Hampshire that “costs...
Lisa Brown and Tim Bryant, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FERGUSON, Mo. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — A peaceful day of protest and remembrance dissolved into chaos...
Hayley Tsukayama, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — Verizon on Friday announced that it’s going to make buying a cellphone plan a lot more...
Farhad Manjoo, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — More than a year ago, in a decision that stunned many American Internet companies,...
John Eligon, THE NEW YORK TIMES ST. LOUIS (The New York Times) — When she tore open the manila envelope on a sweltering morning in...
WXIA-TV Atlanta via USA TODAY ATLANTA (USA Today) — An amended lawsuit filed by the late Bobbi Kristina Brown’s conservator alleges that Nick Gordon gave...
Joseph Mayton, THE GUARDIAN (The Guardian) — The San Francisco 49ers ended their latest chapter of chaos on Friday after releasing talented linebacker Aldon Smith following...
Philip Rucker, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said Saturday that fellow presidential candidate Donald Trump’s derogatory commentary has begun inflicting...
Don Babwin, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Police Department will allow independent evaluations of its stop-and-frisk procedures that critics say target blacks under...
Stephen Deere and Doug Moore, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FERGUSON, Mo. (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — Inside the stuffy lobby of a downtown homeless shelter, Michael...
Elsie Schmelzer, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS ARLINGTON, Texas (The Dallas Morning News) — A 49-year-old police trainee killed an unarmed teen burglary suspect who drove...
Brian Melley, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — It began with a routine traffic stop, blossomed into a protest with the help of a rumor...
(The Washington Post) – The job market’s winning streak continued in July as the economy added 215,000 positions, according to government data released Friday, providing more...
JOAN LOWY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government should crack down on airline fees for things like seat reservations, checked baggage and ticket changes or...
NEW YORK (AP) — The hotel industry is objecting to the acquisition of Orbitz by one-time rival Expedia, saying that it would lead to higher prices...
CAELAINN HOGAN, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — International health officials are scrambling, without much success, to find meningitis C vaccines as an outbreak of the...
