JULIE BYKOWICZ, Associated Press DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — One by one, the wealthy conservative donors stood up Monday and pledged millions of dollars to the...
By Brian E. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call COLUMBIA, S.C. (FinalCall.com) – A federal grand jury in South Carolina returned a 33-count...
(Reuters Health) – Heart attacks seem to have a bigger effect on life expectancy for women and African Americans than for white men, a new study...
Fewer African-Americans since Civil Rights Era By Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Last week, The Huffington Post offered this bold...
(CNN) – Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are not calling it quits this summer. That’s the first thing you need to know. The actors, who...
By Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, and...
(Politico) – Forty years ago, a contentious battle over racial justice gripped Capitol Hill, pitting the nation’s lone African-American senator against the man who would one...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A broad coalition of civil rights groups delivered more than 500,000 signed petitions to the Justice...
HOUSTON (USA Today) — The family of Sandra Bland, the Illinois woman found dead in a Texas jail cell last month, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Houston...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Both sides in the voluntary manslaughter trial of a white Charlotte police officer in the on duty shooting...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The United Nations Human Rights Committee has given the U.S. a series of failing grades on human...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist On August 6, the Voting Rights Act, keystone of the civil rights movement, will mark its 50th anniversary. This...
Ananth Pandian, CBS SPORTS (CBS Sports) — With Damian Lillard, John Wall, Derrick Rose and Andrew Wiggins on its roster, Adidas has some of...
The fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, by a white Ferguson, Missouri, policeman was a catalyst for change in the St. Louis...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist In the Braxton’s world, things are looking up. After heated arguments, a reality check from King TD Jakes, some internal...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT (NNPA) – Although the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado Crew Cab is a big truck at almost 5,500 pounds, it...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Thursday, Aug. 6, marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1965 Voting Rights Act into...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Had I ever met Sandra Bland, I am sure I would have liked her. She is described as an advocate...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Sandra Bland is dead. While many are concentrating on “how” she died, we must also face the reality of “why”...
By Oscar Blayton NNPA Guest Columnist In the depths of the Cold War that raged in the early 1960s, the USSR was scoring points against...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the world’s leading peace and justice advocates, has called Bryan Stevenson “America’s...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Many years ago, as a single man in my early 30s, I dated a young, attractive West African woman. I liked...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist August 17 will mark the 128th birthday of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the visionary Jamaican-born leader who built the Universal Negro...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist If you are a college student, a recent college graduate or even a college drop-out, student loan debt is not...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Let me start with a quote from my mentor, the late Arthur A. Fletcher: “If your life becomes so...
