JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite high-profile concern over issues underscored by the racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, African Americans and Hispanics are...
FERGUSON, Mo. (The Huffington Post) — The revenue-reaping practices of the police department and municipal court in this St. Louis suburb were widely condemned this month and...
(Mashable) – Facebook is moving fast to allow users to send payments to each other. But will users bite? The answer will be essential in determining...
MATTHEW CRAFT, AP Business Writers PAUL WISEMAN, AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Nobody knows when exactly, but the day will eventually come when the...
(Reuters) – Graffiti and Boko Haram’s black and white flags were all that remained of the Islamists in Damasak after troops from Chad and Niger...
(ESPN) – The agent for Adrian Peterson said Wednesday night that the Minnesota Vikings have no plans to release the running back. Ben Dogra told multiple news outlets that Vikings...
The Associated Press Thursday is something of a national holiday for American sports fans, when office productivity plummets. The NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship, also...
(Variety) – Relativity is in talks to develop a biopic about American track and field hero Jesse Owens with Anthony Mackie attached to star. It’s the third Owens movie...
(Ebony.com) – FOX’s hit show, Empire, is getting bigger by the week. This is evidenced by the millions of viewers that tune in every Wednesday to view the...
(The Washington Post) – Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) invoked a famous African American woman to make a point about the delay in confirming an African...
(ABC News) – The state is investigating whether excessive force was used during the arrest of a 20-year-old black University of Virginia student after he attempted...
(Daily Mail) – A former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who now lives in Belize, alongside the very race of people he fought to...
(The Smoking Gun) – Izola Ware Curry, the “demented black woman” who nearly killed Martin Luther King, Jr. by plunging a steel letter opener into...
LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Researchers have identified common genetic traits that may explain how aspirin can help protect against colon cancer. It’s...
WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Monopoly is turning 80. Based on the real-life streets of Atlantic City, Monopoly is one of the...
(Bloomberg) – Twenty five years ago, the NCAA decided something had to be done about March Madness money. The year before, CBS agreed to pay...
(Kansas City Star) – An Overland Park man was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 20 years in federal prison for defrauding hundreds of investors out of...
Malwal: Elder Statesman Traveling Across U.S. to Build Stronger Ties by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times Bona Malwal is considered...
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network (GIN) – The steady nation of Ghana could be heading for a painful train wreck as government...
CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY, Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s president on Wednesday fired his vice president, who was kicked out of their political party...
EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer If you got that warm-‘n-fuzzy feeling the weekend Lehigh beat Duke or the year N.C. State socked Phi Slama Jama or...
Did Aaron Hernandez angrily stare down Odin Lloyd in a Boston nightclub two nights before Lloyd’s murder…or was Hernandez merely exhibiting his usual facial expressions while gazing...
MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Mary J. Blige performed for a feverish crowd Tuesday night at the Samsung Supper Club in an...
by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Shiek Mahmud-Bey isn’t yet a household name, but has been hailed as one of...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock abruptly resigned Tuesday following a monthlong cascade of revelations about his business deals and lavish...
