By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A new report confirms the old saw: The rich are getting richer. According to a report titled,...
[REUTERS] The percentage of Americans living in poverty remained steady last year at 15 percent after rising for several years in the wake of the recession,...
[THE TIMES-PICAYUNE] Citing the “grotesque” misconduct of federal prosecutors, a judge on Tuesday granted a new trial for five former New Orleans Police Departmentofficers convicted in the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the modern civil rights era, no year stands out in my memory more than 1963. I was a...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Is Hip Hop losing its color? Recently Rapper Macklemore recognized that it is White privilege that catapulted him to success. In...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist In office just nine months, Ted Cruz, the junior Republican Senator from Texas, has already established himself as that...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist In the interest of full disclosure, I have a bachelor’s degree in Correctional Administration from the University of Wisconsin. ...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist We talk a lot about...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Steven and Laurie, a White married couple that lives near Richmond, Va., work at a big box store. She is...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The central issue that should concern us when it comes to the chemical weapons crisis in Syria is not...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Since the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) started its Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) weekend, the “Michigan Reception” and “Motown Live Afterglow”...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A recent consumer survey shows that support for financial regulation, including the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act and the Consumer...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The Federal Reserve Chairman is not only one of the most important economic policymakers in America, he or she is...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist On September 30, friends and supporters of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) will gather at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C....
[CBS NEWS] When it comes to getting a full night’s rest, black Americans are more likely to get too little snooze-time than white American adults. A...
by Dee Louis-Scott Special to the NNPA from the Pasadena/St. Gabriel Valley Journal News Psychological abuse can be as damaging to the psyche as physical abuse...
by William Covington Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly “We do not defeat death with a transplant; rather, we gain an extension of life. So the...
[THE WASHINGTON POST] An estimated 200,000 Americans quit smoking in the wake of a federally funded ad campaign that graphically showed the consequences of tobacco use,...
[GLOBAL NEWS] DURHAM, N.C. – Before Atkins, South Beach and Paleo, there was the Rice Diet. Shelley Winters, Lorne Green and Buddy Hackett – all...
[NEW YORK POST] The Post exclusively reported Sunday how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grappled with what he called his “lust demons” and kept a scorecard of more...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Increasing the minimum wage would disproportionately benefit, Black workers and push the country closer to racial...
[WSB-TV 2 ATLANTA] Channel 2 Action News has learned Evelyn Lowery is going home. The condition of Joseph Lowery’s wife remains critical since she suffered...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call (FinalCall.com) – Calls for a boycott in the wake of a Florida jury’s acquittal...
[LOS ANGELES TIMES] PITTSBURGH — In a hotel conference room overlooking this city’s downtown, the leaders of one of the nation’s largest conservative advocacy groups outlined...
by Herbert L. White Special to the NNPA from The Charlotte Post The N.C. NAACP is encouraging Moral Monday defendants to decide if they want to have...
