Josh Gerstein, POLITICO (Politico)—FBI Director James Comey’s pointed critique of law enforcement’s rocky dealings with African-American communities indirectly called attention to an uncomfortable fact: The...
Michael A. Fletcher, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Capital Savings Bank opened shop in Washington in 1888, making it the nation’s first black-owned bank at...
Nate Cohn, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Last month, I wrote an article titled “Evidence That the Jim Crow Era Endures for Older Black...
JACKSON, Miss. (NPR.com)—Here’s an astonishing speech by U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, one of just two African-Americans to have ever served as federal judges in Mississippi....
ROME (Crux Now) — Because he’s such a beguiling media personality, Pope Francis says and does lots of things that get spun as revolutionary but...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is making it easier to plan for your online afterlife. The world’s biggest online social network...
(CBS News) – The federal government can’t protect your cyber data by itself. That’s why President Obama is expected to unveil executive actions Friday designed...
(CBS) – The “smart” home may not be quite as clever as you think. With the arrival of the so-called Internet of things — where...
LINDA A. JOHNSON, AP Business Writer TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Imagine being able to identify who is likely to develop a particular disease — and then...
(The Star-Tribune) – Surgeons who operate on blood vessels in the brain are hailing new data that suggest many more patients would survive strokes if they...
(Tech Times) – Puerto Rico has an obesity crisis. It has higher incidence of childhood obesity compared with mainland United States. In a bid to...
MAE ANDERSON, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When the TV news anchor becomes the news, the result is major buzz and a possible hit...
TOM KRISHER, AP Auto Writers DEE-ANN DURBIN, AP Auto Writers DETROIT (AP) — For the U.S. auto industry, 2014 was the year of the recall. Automakers...
JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s early for many Americans still sloshing through winter to plan their gardens, home improvements and spring sports...
(Mail & Guardian) – With the shenanigans of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) last night in Parliament, the ANC had the nation behind it even...
DANY PADIRE, Associated Press KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press MOUNDOU, Chad (AP) — Suspected Boko Haram militants staged their first attack in Chad on Friday, hitting the...
(Bloomberg) — How does an Aruban taxi driver who shuttles mostly U.S. visitors around the Dutch Caribbean save $17,000 a year? By sailing to Venezuela...
PARIS (The News) – Media freedom suffered a “drastic decline” worldwide last year in part because of extremist groups such as Islamic State and Boko...
(USA Today) – A day after announcing he won’t return to the PGA Tour until he’s playing well enough to challenge the best players in the world,...
BRIAN MAHONEY, AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Curry will take on his teammate and team up with his father, then finally take the...
RALPH D. RUSSO, AP College Football Writer The play still annoys many Alabama fans who are convinced it was illegal. No, not the Kick-Six that Auburn...
MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA All-Star Game is not until Sunday, but hip-hop music’s all-star team — featuring Diddy, Snoop...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The “Saturday Night Live” 40th anniversary special apparently is bursting at the seams with talent. NBC said Thursday it’s expanding the special...
JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr., Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of the late Whitney Houston and the only child between Houston and ex-husband Bobby...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It wasn’t supposed to be like this for Republicans. A month into their control of both chambers of Congress,...
