(Politico) – Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Barack Obama, had surgery in Chicago last week for a spinal condition and will return to Washington on...
The passion, emerging power of Black youth fuel demands for justice by Richard B. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call ST. LOUIS,...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., and the...
Tom Coyne and Michael Tarm, ASSOCIATED PRESS GARY, Ind. (AP) — Police investigating the slayings of seven northwestern Indiana women whose bodies were found over the weekend...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Lost in the frenzy to erect barriers to voting, including reducing the hours available for early voting and imposing strict...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The Court holds that SB 14 creates an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote, has an impermissible discriminatory effect...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I had separate conversations with two governors last week. Both were White, one was a Democrat and one was a Republican. ...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist We say we have “voting power,” but we have settled merely for the “power to vote.” We fight for the “right...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist While we rarely hear good news these days about Congress, I have some to share. Continuing a long tradition of...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Each October, I look forward to reading about the uncanny accomplishments of Nobel Prize winners, particularly those in medicine, science and...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist It is very unsettling to hear various politicians suggest the need for U.S. troops to be redeployed to Iraq and...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist My Brother’s Keeper Initiative was developed under the Obama administration to address persistent opportunity gaps faced by boys and young men...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist I know about Black American leadership from both a personal and a professional perspective that spans more than five...
By Oscar Blayton NNPA Guest Columnist Twenty one to one are pretty bad odds; particularly when they deal with life and death. But last Friday, ProPublica,...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The Environmental Protection Agency was once a small operation working out of the Department of Interior. President Richard Nixon elevated...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Weeks before the U.S. Department of Education (DoE) announces a new rule governing career education programs, the Center for Responsible Lending...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist In a country of 310 million people in which international and domestic airlines move millions of Americans and foreign nationals...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Did you notice that some stores are already touting Christmas sales? They are encouraging people to start buying for Christmas now. ...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Can’t Get Friendship Back to Normal I have been best friends with the same person for the past 10 years. We...
Parmy Olson, FORBES (Forbes)—Microsoft is gearing up to launch a wearable device within the next few weeks, Forbes has learned. The gadget is a smart watch that will...
Dan McQuade, PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE PHILADELPHIA (PhillyMag.com)—Last night at his late night show at the Trocadero, comedian Hannibal Buress did an extended bit about Philadelphia native...
LONDON (The Guardian)—Veteran reggae star and lovers rock pioneer John Holt has died in a London hospital, aged 69. News of the Jamaican singer’s death...
Christopher S. Rugaber, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. businesses were much less likely to boost pay in the third quarter than in previous months,...
