By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The odds were stacked against Britiny Lee before she was born. Her mother was addicted to drugs, like Britiny’s...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The recent deaths of more than a thousand African refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in order to...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As the wealthy few continue to prosper, the rest of the nation is caught in a financial tug-of-war between stagnant...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist The revolutionary and iconic stance of the great Muhammad Ali rang in my mind this morning as I woke up...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist One of the few shining stars of our nation’s economy, the $812-billion chemistry business, is working with Congress to...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT (NNPA) – Toyota’s RAV4 for 2015 is a stalwart. The small crossover is one of the earliest entrants...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist Before I discuss Part I of the big RHOA reunion , I need to talk about how they looked: •...
O’Ryan Johnson and Matt Stout, THE BOSTON HERALD BOSTON (The Boston Herald) — The Boston Police Department has upheld complaints against black officers and punished...
Nate Jones, VULTURE (VULTURE.com) — Vanity Fair sent its finest protocol droid, AN-E L3-B0-V1TZ, to the U.K. set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and...
Dominic Patten, DEADLINE (Deadline.com) — Well, David Ayer didn’t wait long to give the world another look at the upcoming Suicide Squad today. After posting...
Iyana Robertson, VIBE MAGAZINE (VIBE.com) — If this is how she says sorry, Lauryn Hill should make public apology videos more often. After not being able...
Henry Hanks, CNN (CNN) — The fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao promised to be the fight of the century. But one of the events before...
Laura Ungar and Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY (USA Today) — Three-quarters of emergency physicians say they’ve seen ER patient visits surge since Obamacare took effect...
Maryam Shah, THE TORONTO SUN TORONTO (The Toronto Sun) — Hundreds assembled in Toronto Saturday to show solidarity with protesters in Baltimore. Around 400 people gathered in...
Ken Thomas and Brian Witte, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Martin O’Malley often casts Baltimore as the comeback city that overcame the ravages of drugs...
Paul Walsh, THE STAR TRIBUNE MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (The StarTribune) — Nekima Levy-Pounds, a college law professor who has been the voice and the face of the...
Tali Arbel, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Just before its $45 billion deal with Time Warner Cable collapsed over regulators’ fears about a giant...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “It is one measure of the depth and insidiousness of American racism that the nation ignores the rage of...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Freddie Gray, 25, was racially profiled and then chased down by the Baltimore police officers. He subsequently...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist A Dangerous Sister Act Dear Alma, My sister and I are very close. We’re only three years apart. Although not...
Aaron Heller, ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s ceremonial president said Monday that an outbreak of violent protests by Ethiopian Jews has “exposed an open,...
Martha Mendoza, ASSOCIATED PRESS MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Howard University freshman Alanna Walton knew something was different about the professor teaching her introduction to...
Nate Scott, USA TODAY (USA Today) — In case you missed it, Saturday night’s fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was dumb and bad. What...
Ashish Magotra, FIRST POST SPORTS (FirstPost.com) — A fight five years in the making, two legendary boxers, the stars (from Michael Jordan to Clint Eastwood...
Ben Terris, THE WASHINGTON POST DETROIT (The Washington Post) — Ben Carson had just started a stump speech to his staff, the one about freedom,...
