By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago I traveled from Mississippi to Selma, Ala. on March 21, 1965 to join Dr. Martin...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist For the seventh year in a row, I drove out to the North Carolina Western Regional Basketball Championships to watch...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “What could more profoundly vindicate the idea of America than plain and humble people — the unsung, the downtrodden,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Writing has been a catharsis for me since my “angry days” in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. I used...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist In recognition of the 75th Anniversary of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), I believe it is important...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Mom’s Friend Turned on Me Dear Alma, My husband was laid off after 16 years on the job. My salary...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist One of the many questions provoked by the “open letter” 47 Republican Senators published last week to try to...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist President Obama marked the 50th anniversary of Selma by celebrating the ordinary heroes who sacrificed so much to...
Wesley Lowery and David A. Fahrenthold, THE WASHINGTON POST CLAYTON, Mo. (The Washington Post)—Authorities charged a 20-year-old man from the St. Louis area with shooting two...
Amanda Bennett, HUFFINGTON POST TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (Huffington Post)—On March 10, Elliot Spillers was elected the first African American SGA president at the University of Alabama...
Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith, Center for Public Integrity via THE WASHINGTON POST PELINDABA, South Africa (The Washington Post)—Enough nuclear explosive to fuel half...
Clarence Roy-Macaulay and Robbie Corey-Boulet, ASSOCIATED PRESS FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s vice president sought asylum from the United States on Saturday, saying...
Sylvie Corbet, ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS (AP) — France has reoriented its military efforts in West Africa to focus more on the fight against Boko Haram,...
Alexei Oreskovic, REUTERS (Reuters)—Apple Inc’s new smartwatch may be a tough sell, with 69 percent of Americans indicating they are not interested in buying the...
Josh Constine, TECH CRUNCH (TechCrunch.com)—Facebook today announced it has acquired personalized shopping search engine TheFind to help improve its commerce ads. TheFind had raised $26 million from...
Borys Kit, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER (Hollywood Reporter)—Eddie Murphy is in talks to join the Richard Pryor biopic that Lee Daniels is directing for The Weinstein Co.,...
Hugh McIntyre, FORBES (Forbes.com)—Some people just can’t get enough of the spotlight, can they? In addition to her many upcoming and ongoing projects, global pop...
Marisa Taylor, AL JAZEERA AMERICA (Al Jazeera America)—Health experts in Australia said they have completed an exhaustive review of available research on homeopathic medicine, resulting...
Steve DelVecchio, LARRYBROWNSPORTS.COM SAN FRANCISCO (LarryBrownSports.com)—Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch and a group of his friends were reportedly involved in a fight outside a...
Stephen Ohlemacher, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are getting older, but not this old: Social Security records show that 6.5 million people in the...
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Several million people hit with new federal fines for going without health insurance will get a second chance...
Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY FERGUSON, Mo. (USA Today)— The top elected official here says he had limited authority to tackle enormous problems and quell racial...
Sean Murphy, ASSOCIATED PRESS OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The actions of some fraternity members at the University of Oklahoma caught engaging in a racist chant...
Mark Hosenball, REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters)—The United States is limiting its intelligence and military aid to Nigeria during Boko Haram’s deadly insurgency due to concerns over...
Sam Stringer, CNN ATLANTA (CNN.com)—Creflo Dollar is hoping a few folks will see fit to bless him. The minister, known for being a prosperity preacher at...
