By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The hardest work in the world is being out of work.” – Whitney M. Young, National Urban League President 1961-1971...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Anyone who has followed my columns knows that about this time of the year I normally write something about...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Although arbitration is often associated with labor unions, millions of consumers are also affected by it and don’t even know...
By Rev. Amos C. Brown NNPA Guest Columnist Easter was last Sunday, but Rev. Franklin Graham is still wiping egg off his face. In an...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist We have spent a lot of time trying to figure out this enigma about African development. We traveled to...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — He was a soccer player with a fighting spirit, a talented keyboard player with “golden fingers”...
Michael Weissenstein and Bradley Klapper, ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA (AP) — American hopes of opening an embassy in Havana before presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has passed up an early chance to review a contested North Carolina election law that opponents say limits the...
Hayley Tsukayama, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—On this day in 2010, customers lined up around the block to get their hands on the iPad,...
Deena Prichep, NPR WASHINGTON (NPR.org)—Friday night marked the start of Passover, when Jews around the world tell the story of Exodus. That story, with its...
Jennifer Bendery and Dana Leibelson, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (Huffington Post)—When it comes to restoring the landmark Voting Rights Act, Republican lawmakers don’t seem to...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Eleven Atlanta teachers have been convicted of altering student test scores on standardized tests. They are charged with racketeering and...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Pity the poor, put-upon anti-gay bigots. Worried by recent steady march of federal court decisions advancing the right of...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist My Daddy is Having a Baby with a Young Thang Dear Alma, My 59-year-old father may have conceived a child...
Mugdha Variyar, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES GARISSA, Kenya (International Business Times)—After the Al-Shabaab attack on Kenya’s Garissa University left 148 students dead last Thursday, Twitterati have taken it upon...
Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY (USA Today)—A Tidal wave of exclusive releases have hit Jay Z’s streaming service, which relaunched with a star-studded event in New...
Jessica Leber, FASTCOMPANY CO.EXIST (FastCompany Co.EXIST)—Neil deGrasse Tyson would like the world to know that Charlie Sheen is a science nerd. I ask astrophysicist and...
Cindy Boren, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Kentucky’s Andrew Harrison found out the hard way that nothing said during a post-game press conference is ever...
Krissah Thompson, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—Many of the men and women who have worked in the White House residence — serving presidents...
Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY FERGUSON, Mo. (USA Today)—Voters in Ferguson, Mo., go to the polls Tuesday with an opportunity to transform the city’s political fabric...
NEW YORK (CNN)—High school senior Harold Ekeh didn’t just get into one Ivy League university. He was accepted into all eight. Now comes the really...
Margalit Fox, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times)—Phyllis R. Klotman, a film scholar who helped unearth lost treasures of African-American cinema and...
Carl Gibson, THINK PROGRESS BALTIMORE, Md. (ThinkProgress.com)—Starting this week, 25,000 households in Baltimore will suddenly lose their access to water for owing bills of $250...
Samuel L. Freedmen, THE NEW YORK TIMES CHICAGO (The New York Times)— Just before the Passover festival, the same point in the calendar when Jesus gathered his closest...
Mike Snider, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Just two days after shares in Aspiro skyrocketed more than 1,000%, the company will be delisted after trading ends today. Earlier...
