(Gulf News) – President Barack Obama’s efforts to normalise relations with Cuba are producing a wave of enthusiasm from US firms eager to do business...
AARON BEARD, AP Basketball Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Mike Krzyzewski stood beside the gleaming national championship trophy, posing for the traditional, confetti-soaked photos after winning a...
DOUG FEINBERG, AP Basketball Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — UConn’s Geno Auriemma could win his 10th championship and tie the record by former UCLA men’s coach...
DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tiger Woods arrived later than usual Monday for a Masters that is different from all the others...
(Los Angeles Times) – Fresh off his award-season wins and attention, John Legend has lined up a new film project. The musician, who won an...
(USA Today) – One hundred years ago, Billie Holiday, as she later became known, was born in Philadelphia. The legendary singer would have an enormous...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will ask Americans to think of climate change as a threat not just to the environment,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from a former government subcontractor seeking to sue the U.S. government for negligence over his...
Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer D.C.’s Rev. Leah Daughtry has been tapped as chief executive officer of the 2016 Democratic National Convention Committee....
by Terry Shropshire Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Daily World Many urbanites probably wonder why instances of police brutality and lethal force keep being...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Gardner C. Taylor, who was widely regarded as the dean of American preaching and who played a key role...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The slow-moving, uneven economic recovery continues to elude Black workers and some economists predict that...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black women are the only group that has not recovered the jobs they lost in the recession....
(Los Angeles Times) – Legendary blues musician B.B. King has been hospitalized, his representatives confirmed to the Los Angeles Times, but his daughter later said he...
(Daily Mail) – Octavia Spencer shocked and angered hundreds of fans at a recent book signing, acting like an ‘ungrateful b****,’ say eyewitnesses who were so...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The next Ferguson City Council will face the daunting task of remaking much of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Prisoners’ advocate groups hope President Barack Obama’s decision to grant clemency to nearly two dozen,...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Clemson University put the school’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on probation for two years after the group held...
(NBC News) – Vijay Chokal-Ingam, the brother of writer and actress Mindy Kaling, has sparked controversy with his new book, in which he claims to have been...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist It’s hard to believe the RH franchise was created based on the ABC show “Desperate Housewives.” I have to admit,...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT (NNPA) –GMC’s 2015 Sierra 2500HD is a serious truck. We had the Denali Crew Cab 4X4 trim model...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Mass incarceration in the United States is counterproductive and disproportionately causes a long-term injury to Black Americans and...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Having seen how Black people are mistreated in country, not only historically but presently, I thought about that gloriously perfect...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist After 19 years, most of them as a satisfied customer, I am closing my personal checking account this week...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Many children and families eagerly look forward to the end of the school year and the carefree days of...
