NEW YORK (AP) — The National Basketball Association is trading Coke for Pepsi. The league said Monday that it’s struck a new marketing partnership with Pepsico,...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — President-elect Muhammadu Buhari says he cannot promise to find the 219 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists one...
ABDI GULED, Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — An assault by gunmen on the offices of Somali’s education ministry on Tuesday left 17 people dead, including...
(Bloomberg) – Get ready for a new economic order. In the world 15 years from now, the U.S. will be far less dominant, several emerging markets will catapult into...
SCOTT SMITH, Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips is suspected of killing his cellmate in a Central California prison, officials...
by Nicholas A. Norman Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson is reportedly set to meet with the...
by Earl Austin Jr. Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American St. Louisan Jo Jo White will be inducted in the Naismith Memorial Basketball...
BRIAN MAHONEY, AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rod Thorn returned to the NBA league office in 2013 with a commitment to stay two years....
(New York Daily News) – Drake is kissing and telling on his makeout with the Material Girl, saying he was “shocked” but not grossed out. “Don’t...
ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who Marion “Suge” Knight ran over told authorities he was mad at the former rap...
(Daily Mail) – North West was a happy traveler on Tuesday as she arrived in Paris with her famous parents. The only child of Kim Kardashian...
(People) – This has no doubt been a very difficult time for Meadow Walker, who lost her father Paul Walker in a fatal car accident a year and a half...
Washington (CNN) – Ben Carson will make a major announcement on May 4 in Detroit, his campaign tells CNN, setting the date and location for what’s...
GARY FINEOUT, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A snapshot of where Florida Sen. Marco Rubio stands on issues likely to be debated during the Republican...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A district judge agreed to halt the lethal injection of a Missouri death row inmate, but the decision...
JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, Associated Press ALLEN REED, Associated Press TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A 73-year-old Oklahoma volunteer sheriff’s deputy who authorities said fatally shot a suspect after...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Even as health care costs continue to cause concerns for the poor, nearly 40 percent African...
by Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper As the nation kicks off Alcohol Awareness Month, new research has come to light. It...
(Bloomberg) – When it comes to taxes, corporate America is getting a bit less corporate. And a bit less American. Fueled by a wave of...
(USA Today) – People worldwide are marking one year since Boko Haram militants abducted nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria, sparking global outrage. The girls were kidnapped from...
(Salon) – The horrific story of the unarmed Walter Scott’s death at the hands of Officer Michael Slager continues to reverberate. Aside from the incontrovertible evidence on...
KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — All but one of 10 former Atlanta public school educators were sentenced to jail time Tuesday in a widespread...
by Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The effects of living in a patriarchal, racist society measurably erode Black women’s physical and mental wellbeing,...
[People of color] are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to...
