(AL.com) – OK procrastinators, the clock is ticking. The tax filing deadline for 2014 returns is less than one week away, and if you’ve waited...
GARISSA, Kenya (Wall Street Journal) – One year ago, President Uhuru Kenyatta declared on television that the era of insecurity was over for Kenyans. He vowed that...
(BBC) – Kenyans have taken to the streets and to social media to express their grief at the death of 148 people in the al-Shabab attack...
EVENS SANON, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 21 people have died and 17 others are missing in a suspected boat capsizing off Haiti’s...
ANTONIO GONZALEZ, AP Basketball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Curry never talks about his case for NBA MVP unless he’s asked. Instead, he prefers to...
GARY B. GRAVES, AP Sports Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A record seven players are leaving a mighty Kentucky team after a season that fell two...
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — No surprise and no suspense from Jahlil Okafor: The Duke freshman is headed to the NBA. The 6-foot-11 All-American announced his decision...
TALES AZZONI, AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Most Brazilian players dream of making it to a top European football club. These days, though, some...
(Raw Story) – A guest on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program walked out of the studio Thursday night to protest the bizarre arguments of another...
(Broadway World) – The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will present the 18th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Eddie Murphy...
(People) – How is Bobbi Kristina Brown doing? In the weeks after she was found unresponsive in her bathtub on Jan. 29, there was an endless...
(People) – This past season of New York Fashion Week, rapper-slash-fashion guru Kanye West debuted his first show at New York Fashion Week in partnership...
ULA ILNYTZKY, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — One hundred years ago, African-Americans began a mass exodus from the rural South, heading north in search of...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press MITCH WEISS, Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — As its population surged in the last decade, South Carolina’s third-largest city...
(CNN) – Hillary Clinton is planning to launch her presidential candidacy on Sunday through a video message on social media, a person close to her campaign-in-waiting...
(New York Times) – It was not a particularly violent crime that sent Michael Megginson to Rikers Island. He was arrested for stealing a cellphone. But in...
JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS, Associated Press TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The University of Oklahoma’s new chief of diversity programs says he knows why he’s the right fit for...
by Bert Wilkinson Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News The six-week-old government in the Eastern Caribbean twin island federation of St. Kitts...
WILL GRAVES, AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — His trademark locks bouncing off the top of his No. 43 jersey, Troy Polamalu spent more than a...
(BBC) – Forty years ago, Lee Elder became the first black golfer to play in the US Masters – but when he qualified for the tournament,...
(Alternative Media Syndicate) – Police and city officials have just released the dashcam video showing the traffic stop harassment, just moments before Officer Michael Slager fatally...
(Raw Story) – The shocking footage of South Carolina man Walter Scott being shot in the back as he ran from North Charleston police officer Michael Slager...
(NBC News) – A Minnesota teen has achieved the rare and prestigious honor of being accepted to all eight Ivy League schools. Munira Khalif, a senior...
By Barney Blakeney Special to the NNPA from The Charleston Chronicle CHARLESTON, S.C. – North Charleston Branch NAACP President Ed Bryant said Thursday the April 4...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Some relatives of students who were mercilessly gunned down by Islamic militants said Wednesday they would pray for...
