By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Considerable fanfare greeted Israel’s airlift of tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews in the 1980s and 1990s. The Israeli government...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, about 1.7 million people will receive their bachelor’s degrees, and another nearly...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Wherever there has been struggle, black women have been identified with that struggle.” – Ella Baker, “The Black Woman...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Our federal government is the biggest consumer of supplies and services in the world. Its procurement laws are...
Cara Anna, ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Refugees and migrants intercepted at sea will not “be sent back against their will,” the European Union’s...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — From contraception to colonoscopies, the Obama administration Monday closed a series of insurance loopholes on coverage of preventive...
Sarah N. Lynch and Jason Lange, REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Federal Reserve drew together extensive plans for handling a U.S. debt default that included...
Nate Raymond and Jonathan Stempel, REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) — A U.S. judge on Monday ruled that Nomura Holdings Inc (8604.T) made false statements in...
Christine Armario and Sally Ho, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW CUYAMA, Calif. (AP) — Nestled between mountains 60 miles from the nearest city, students at rural...
Evan Serpick, ROLLING STONE BALTIMORE (Rolling Stone) — Two weeks after protests in Baltimore brought national attention to the death of Freddie Gray while he...
Mark Puente and Meredith Kohn, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — When Baltimore State’s Attorney Maryliyn Mosby charged six police officers in the...
Jeremy Kohler, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH CLAYTON, Mo. (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — Dorian Johnson, who was walking with Michael Brown Jr. on Aug. 9...
Kyle Hightower and Mike Schneider, ASSOCIATED PRESS LAKE MARY, Fla. (AP) — A bullet missed George Zimmerman’s head when he was involved in a shooting...
Emily Langer, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — The tempo marking for “We Shall Overcome” reads “moderately slow with determination.” Slowly but with determination...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist There are many different manifestations of racism in America and throughout the world. But there is not a...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “Americans don’t want to imagine that our racist history is actually an ongoing racist reality. We like to look...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Answering my Critics Dear Alma, I have worked for a large cleaning company for the past 17 years. Our supervisor...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s main opposition group on Sunday chose its first black leader at a party congress, seeking to...
Merrill Barr, Forbes (Forbes.com) — Two years ago, NBC released the first trailer for The Blacklist to enormous fan fair mostly fueled by the gravitas...
Justin Neuman, BLEACHER REPORT (BleacherReport.com) — Man, are the NBA playoffs great or what? This weekend’s slate of games featured several crazy buzzer-beaters and a Hall...
Chris Chase, USA TODAY (USA Today) — LeBron James’ buzzer beater in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals was perhaps a season-saving shot that was both...
Allie Malloy and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — Michelle Obama gave an impassioned and personal commencement speech Saturday on the trials she’s faced as the first African-American...
Andrew Knapp, THE POST AND COURIER CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (The Post and Courier) — A Charleston County deputy shouted “show me your hands” and gave...
BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — The Baltimore riots threw a spotlight on the poverty and isolation of the African-American community where the unrest began last...
Abby Phillip, THE WASHINGTON POST ST. LOUIS (The Washington Post) — One woman and her long-lost daughter may have brought a dark chapter from St....
