(BBC) – Uganda’s Supreme Court has ruled that the practice of refunding a bride price on the dissolution of a customary marriage is unconstitutional and should...
(BBC) – Doctors in Ghana have stopped providing emergency services in a strike over their conditions of service. For more than a week, out patient services...
AYA BATRAWY, Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — In a minute-long video uploaded to YouTube last month, two young Saudi women walk along the...
(USA Today) – There is nothing like a quarterback battle to steal all the attention at training camp. And that is what is happening, for the most...
GREG BEACHAM, AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. began promoting his final fight by doing what he does best. Fending off every...
SCHUYLER DIXON, AP Sports Writer OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Simply by showing up for practice every day at training camp, Joseph Randle separates himself from the...
NEW YORK (AP) – Coaches, players and game officials will be allowed to examine video on the sideline during preseason games. And there’s a chance they...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A roundup of news Thursday from the Television Critics Association summer meeting, at which TV networks and streaming services are presenting...
LOS ANGELES (UPI) – Margaret Cho and NeNe Leakes will be the first two guest co-hosts when the revamped analysis program Fashion Police returns. The E! show is scheduled to...
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (UPI) – Uzo Aduba and Amber Riley have joined the ensemble of The Wiz Live!, NBC announced. Orange is the New Black Emmy winner Aduba is to...
(The Washington Post) – Welcome to our first edition of fact checks of the debates for the 2016 presidential election cycle. Fox News aired two debates on...
DANVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia has revoked specialty license plates featuring a Confederate battle flag after a federal judge dissolved an injunction allowing the image. The...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Investigations launched by three agencies into a psychological firm tasked with assessing the mental health...
CONNIE CASS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Marking the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, President Barack Obama remembered the African-American men and women across...
MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown went to court Thursday to stop Florida lawmakers from redrawing her congressional district, saying...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) — A year ago, Ferguson, Missouri, was a mostly quiet working-class suburban town. The uneasy...
(CBS News) – One year ago, the nation watched as the city of Ferguson, Mo., erupted. St. Louis police, dressed in riot gear, stood in a...
(BBC) – There is still no headstone in the place where 18-year-old Michael Brown Jr is buried. Those who wish to pay their respects have to...
Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American It has been one year since the world was introduced to the small city of Ferguson, Missouri...
(The Huffington Post) – A landmark album is dropping Friday — but you’ll need Apple Music or iTunes to listen to it. USA Today reported earlier...
(Reuters) – Despite an explosion of fitness advice from TV shows, blogs, books and online experts, a basic knowledge of health and exercise still eludes most...
By Felecia Piggott-Long, Ph. D. Special to the NNPA from The Winston-Salem Chronicle Today, it is not surprising to see women sporting kinky twists, locks, Nubian...
RYAN NAKASHIMA, AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Signs that pay TV’s pricy bundles of channels are starting to unravel are starting to take a...
KAORI HITOMI, Associated Press MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Thursday, with...
CARLEY PETESCH, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — New Ebola cases were in the single digits another week, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, showing that...
