Genetta M. Adams, THE ROOT AUSTIN, Tx. (TheRoot.com)—While the tech industry continued to try to figure out what to do about its diversity problem, 50 high...
Candice Choi, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald’s workers in 19 cities filed complaints over burns from grease, a lack of protective equipment and...
Vindu Goel, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—With 1.39 billion active users worldwide, Facebook’s social network is the closest thing we have to a...
Kimberly Hefling and Jesse J. Holland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Their reputations sullied by race-tainted incidents, many colleges are clamping down on campus fraternities....
Cory Townes, EBONY (Ebony.com)—This story starts with a conversation in Brooklyn roughly last week. “Yo, you know what this means?” “No, what?” “This time next week,...
Dalton Ross, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (EW.com)—[SPOILER ALERT: Read on only of you have already watched Sunday’s “Spend” episode of The Walking Dead.] Another one bites...
Ryan Book, THE MUSIC TIMES (MusicTimes.com)—Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were certainly responsibly for the biggest copyright infraction decision of the last week, which allowed...
Burgess Everett, POLITICO WASHINGTON (Politico)—Even as the White House ramps up pressure on Congress to stay out of its negotiations with Iran on a nuclear...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Julie Wolf, THE ROOT (TheRoot.com)—Who was America’s first successful stage magician? He swallowed swords and molten lead. He danced...
Nedra Pickler, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Pointing to increased high school graduation rates, President Barack Obama said Monday he’s prepared to fight with...
Philip Bump, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—For the first time since Gallup began tracking this data in 1992, neither the Democratic nor Republican...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Lowering the ozone standard, particularly to the levels suggested by EPA, will almost certainly cause economic harm to the...
Jessica Guyunn, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today)—The growing effort to get more African Americans and Hispanics to join tech companies or start their own...
Jared Dubin, CBS SPORTS (CBSSports.com)—Former Florida State Seminoles quarterback Jameis Winston is widely expected to be one of the first picks off the board in...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I never cease to be surprised by the racist audacity of the Republicans in Congress. In clear violation of...
Abby Ohlheiser, THE WASHINGTON POST NEW YORK (The Washington Post)—The New York Police Department has confirmed that at least some edits to Wikipedia entries about...
Jamey Keaton and Philippe Sotto, ASSOCIATED PRESS CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France (AP) — Some things have changed since riots swept across France’s troubled neighborhoods a decade ago....
Bill Barnwell, GRANTLAND (Grantland.com)—After running down the worst contracts of free agency last week, let’s look at the 10 deals that stand out as the best values....
Gail Mitchell, BILLBOARD LOS ANGELES (Billboard.com)—Deitrick Haddon, award-winning gospel artist and a star on Oxygen network’s popular reality series Preachers of L.A. and Fix My...
Josh Lederman, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday for holding up confirmation of President Barack...
Richard Valmanis, REUTERS ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Reuters)—The man accused of wounding two policemen during a protest rally outside the Ferguson, Missouri, police headquarters last week...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist HOUSTON (NNPA)—After more than a week, it felt like we drove the Lexus GS 350 F Sport sedan through...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist Gossip in the Air This week in Atlanta it was all about friendships, complicated love and lots of gossip…RHOA’s Kandi...
By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist Every morning, when I fix my teenage daughter breakfast and drop her off to school, she reminds me that #BlackGirlsMatter....
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist No United States president has been more disrespected than Barack Obama – and his family. The hatred for the...
