By Mary L. Datcher Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender Fashion fanatics will be granted access to the treasures from the Ebony...
Andrew Pollack, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — Is sexual desire a human right? And are women entitled to a little...
Julia Payne, REUTERS ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters) — New Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari promised on Friday to eradicate the “mindless, godless” militants of Boko Haram...
David Ranii, THE NEWS & OBSERVER DURHAM, N.C. (The News & Observer) — The corporate parent of Mechanics & Farmers Bank has named Christopher...
Howard Fendrich, ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS (AP) — For the third match in a row at the French Open, Serena Williams was oddly out of...
Stacia L. Brown, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — Ava DuVernay, director of the Academy Award-nominated film “Selma,” spent all of this Wednesday...
Hugo Daniel, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (The New York Daily News) — Only Yeezus can set this man free. The California plastic surgeon who...
Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY (USA Today) — It’s been nearly a year since the crash that almost took his life, but the pain is...
Keli Goff, The Daily Beast (The Daily Beast) — If Republicans really care about winning in 2016, then they may want to pay more...
Kimberly Kindy, plus reporting by Julie Tate, Jennifer Jenkins, Steven Rich, Keith L. Alexander and Wesley Lowery, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — In...
Sebastien Malo, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) — An African-American celebration called Pinkster dating back to the 17th century is enjoying a quiet revival in...
Sam Sanders, NPR WASHINGTON (NPR) — For some time, researchers suspected that the São José-Paquete de Africa, a Portuguese slave ship, lost in 1794...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT (NNPA) – The Mazda MX-5 Miata PRHT roadster is a mix of modern technology and straightforward old school....
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist Reality TV gets a lot of heat for so many reasons…it’s dramatic, over the top and at times not very...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When racist attitudes, either conscious or subconscious, are combined with the discretionary powers that law enforcement officers have, the result...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist It’s getting to be difficult to recall a week when, thanks to public exposure of videos, or tweets, text...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Discussions in the news media (I’d rather call it the “Views Media”) regarding the use of the word, “Thug,” are...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist I recently attended my grandson Austin Ragland’s graduation from pre-school in Buford, Ga. Yes, you read correctly – pre-school....
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “It was a generation ago that Harry Truman said, and I quote him: ‘Millions of our citizens do not...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist One’s worldview or social perspective is mainly informed by a matrix of different socioeconomic and political circumstances. A...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin All across the country, people are gathering...
By Matthew C. Whitaker NNPA Guest Columnist Numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that income disparities among different ethnic groups in the...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist Unbelievable! That was my immediate response to the most talked about, scrutinized, celebrated, disrespected, revered and underappreciated professional athlete in...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist On the surface, the Apple/Samsung trial that recently concluded appears to be a minor win for Samsung in a...