Frances Stead Sellers, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—It’s no secret that the stamp of historic segregation is still seared into black and white Americans’...
Sonya Eskridge Special to the NNPA from the CHICAGO DEFENDER (NNPA)—Black female students are facing two huge institutional challenges as racism and sexism converge in...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has decried the “inhuman” conditions facing migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and has encouraged communities there...
ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Few members of Congress appear willing to move toward a bipartisan update to the 80-year-old, Depression-era law that top...
(USA Today) Q: I’m thinking about joining my car insurance company’s program that tracks my driving habits in exchange for lower premiums. Are there any...
(Christian Science Monitor) – It’s no secret that Twitter can be a platform where pretty nasty abuse is dished out. Last year’s Gamergate tempest, which began, ostensibly, as...
(The Times-Gazette) – Researchers have developed a new smartphone accessory that can be used to diagnose HIV and syphilis within 15 minutes; and it works...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Thousands of travelers to the Caribbean and nearby regions are coming home with an unwanted souvenir: a mosquito-borne virus that...
(CBS News) – Gas prices are starting to zoom higher, jumping more than 20 cents overnight in some parts of the country this week. Residents...
YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — College-educated and gainfully employed 36-year-old Eriko Sekiguchi should be a sought-after friend or date, planning nights on the...
CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — The Eastman Kodak Co. will continue to make motion picture film in the age of digital filmmaking after...
(Reuters) – The number of people sick with Ebola fever has doubled in Guinea in the past week following the discovery of cases previously unknown...
(CNN) – ISIS has stepped up the use of children in its bloody campaign of terror, the United Nations says — subjecting them horrors that include...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s government has built close to 4 million houses for low-income families since the end of apartheid in 1994. Lizzie Mboweni is...
DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tiger Woods knew his tournament was over before anyone else did. Standing on the third green on...
DAVE CAMPBELL, AP Pro Football Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The latest attempt by star running back Adrian Peterson to get back on the field will come...
(The Tennessean) – In a move that should have blindsided no one, the Titans released right tackle Michael Oher on Thursday, less than a year after the team signed...
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Just as Richard Sherman predicted, his new son was a disciplined young man. Sherman’s girlfriend, Ashley Moss, gave birth to the couple’s...
TIM DAHLBERG, AP Boxing Writer HBO and Showtime have agreed on how they would broadcast a fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, promoter Bob...
TOM WITHERS, AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Clippers All-Star guard Chris Paul was critical of referee Lauren Holtkamp following a 105-94 loss to the Cavaliers...
(CBS News) – The director of the new movie celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. and civil rights tells Bob Simon that filming it on a...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5 (UPI) — Beck is to perform alongside Chris Martin, and Mary J. Blige is set to duet with Sam Smith at Sunday’s...
ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress will face some resistance to a vote to authorize...
(Politico) – The Agriculture Department is getting ready to tell a lot of people who’ve been getting farm subsidy checks without lifting a hay bale,...
