Connor Radnovich, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act on Tuesday by posthumously bestowing the Congressional...
By Hollis Watkins Special to the Afro (The Afro)—Racism is still alive and well in Mississippi and throughout this country just as it was in the...
(Reuters) – California’s top court on Monday unanimously ruled that large retailers are not required to provide automated external defibrillators (AEDs) inside their stores, deciding...
LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES (AP) — With a $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers hanging in the balance, a judge suggested...
BRIAN MAHONEY, AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Carmelo Anthony “loves being a Knick” but is headed for free agency because he wants to explore...
NEW YORK (AP) — Terry McMillan is ending a long-term relationship — with her publisher. The author of such best-sellers as “Waiting to Exhale” and...
NEW YORK (AP) — A draft of one of the most popular songs of all time, Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” sold Tuesday for...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGNTON (NNPA) – From 2003 to 2014, student debt in America skyrocketed from $250 million to $1.2 trillion, surpassing...
(Detroit Free-Press) – Law enforcement officials rescued 168 child victims of commercial sex trafficking in a nationwide sweep during the past week and arrested 281 alleged...
By Oscar Blayton Special to the NNPA PERSPECTIVE Beginning in 1945, as a Black male child, I spent my early years in a small southern...
By Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just…...
(Computerworld)—The Microsoft Surface Pro 3 is here, and reviewers are falling over themselves to look at it in-depth (and inside it). Is it the usual 3rd-time’s-a-charm...
By Steven Ivory Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times While sitting at the light on a backed-up Los Angeles freeway exit ramp one morning,...
(CBS News)—Nearly 170 victims of child sex trafficking, many of whom had never been reported missing, were rescued in the last week as part of an...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Cancer is the nation’s second-leading cause of death for both Blacks and Whites. While there is...
TIM REYNOLDS, AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James is heading back to free agency. James has told the Miami Heat that he is opting...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (NNPA) – After working 37 years for General Motors, it is not unusual for Eric Peterson, vice president...
JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Lucky students in Chile went home early, many Brazilian offices and stores went dark, and across the...
Sarah El Deeb, ASSOCIATED PRESS Maggie Michael, ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Monday convicted three Al-Jazeera journalists and sentenced them to...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic In 18 years, the American Black Film Festival has migrated from Acapulco, Mexico, to Los Angeles to Miami and now...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Mozambique plans to clear all known minefields with the help of international backers by the end of this...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As voters’ rights advocates and civil rights leaders commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1964 “Freedom Summer”...
(The Independent)—A Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for converting from Islam to Christianity has been reunited with her family after her release from...
(The Washington Post) – The recent primary loss by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor set off a barrage of political analysis that concluded that any...
