RALPH D. RUSSO, AP College Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Marcus Mariota wrote it all down, every word of his Heisman Trophy acceptance speech. It...
JON KRAWCZYNSKI, AP Basketball Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — All these years, Kobe Bryant has been chasing Michael Jordan. The bar doesn’t get any higher than that....
ALICIA RANCILIO, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — At Sunday’s premiere of “Selma” in New York, the cast acknowledged parallels between their film about the African-American...
LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Cosby broke his silence amid a flood of rape accusations in a very brief interview with...
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Jeb Bush’s big donors and allies are tantalized by his promise to...
New Lawsuit Could Hamper Actor’s Plan to Break Silence by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer A woman claiming she was...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Health insurance companies preserved their tax breaks. Farmers and ranchers were spared having to report on pollution from manure. Tourist destinations like Las...
BERKELEY, California (AP) — Effigies of black lynching victims found hanging at the University of California, Berkeley have sparked debate over whether the images are powerful...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On Saturday, thousands of Americans across the country registered their objection to police officers not being held...
By Narene Stokes-James Special to NNPA EXCLUSIVE KANSAS CITY, Mo. – In the midst of the headliners Eric Garner, Michael Brown and now Tamir Rice,...
Michael A. Fletcher, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—The Great Recession was hard on almost everyone, eroding the net worth of the typical American by...
Dan Rafael, ESPN SAN ANTONIO, Tx. (ESPN.com)—Pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. has had precious little to say about the fight the public has demanded for...
Nia-Malika Henderson, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Over these last few weeks, it’s been hard to miss the presence of hip-hop in protests over incidents...
Robert Barnes, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—The Supreme Court said Friday that it will decide whether hundreds of juvenile offenders sentenced to life...
Jesse J. Holland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Who, if anyone, is leading the emerging movement around the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner...
Martha Waggoner, ASSOCIATED PRESS BLADENBORO, N.C. (AP) — The black teenager was found in a North Carolina trailer park, hanging from a swing set by...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive and dreaming today, his ‘I Have a Dream’...
STEVEN DUBOIS, Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A “Driving While Black” smartphone application is set for release this month, but its developers say motorists should...
by Rev. Manson B. Johnson Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times A CHRISTIAN LIFE CONNECTION SERIES “DEVELOPING MY NEW LIFE RELATIONSHIPS: The Book...
by Pastor E. A. Deckard Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times “With quiet courage and nonnegotiable dignity, Rosa Parks was an activist and a...
by Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer While watching the Oprah Winfrey Network recently, I witnessed Iyanla Vanzant work the “Help Desk,”...
(New York Times) – The Commonwealth Fund has been publishing surveys comparing health care in industrialized countries since 1998, a continuing report card in which...
JULIE WATSON, Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — California officials are battling the worst whooping cough epidemic to hit the state in seven decades as a...
KRISTIN J. BENDER, Associated Press A year ago, 13-year-old Jahi McMath underwent a tonsillectomy and tissue removal at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California, to treat sleep...
PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Anxiety, depression, guilt, sleeplessness, marital strife, drug and alcohol abuse — two years after the massacre at Sandy...
