By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With a largely uncooperative, highly-partisan Congress headed into a mid-term election, President Obama declared in his State...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department and the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund have reached an agreement with the four major...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PRETORIA, South Africa (NNPA) – Nearly a month after his death, there is a bitter struggle to define – and,...
NEWS ANALYSIS By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PRETORIA, South Africa (NNPA) – President Obama and former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush...
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California community is anguished over the fatal shooting by a deputy of a popular, 13-year-old boy who had been...
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Contractors who built the web portal for the Obama administration’s health insurance marketplace said Thursday...
Employees Began Returning Thursday By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Barack Obama signed a bill into law early Thursday morning that ended...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Four months after the Supreme Court declined to invalidate affirmative action in a case brought against the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although the shutdown of the federal government that began Tuesday is affecting all Americans, a disproportionate portion...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief [FIRST OF TWO PARTS] HAVANA, Cuba (NNPA) – Jesse Jackson says now that Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos has rejected...
By David Stokes Special to the NNPA from The Atlanta Inquirer ATLANTA – Evelyn Gibson Lowery, a civil rights activist and wife of Southern Christian Leadership...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week, Americans commemorated the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on 9/11/2001. During this crisis, Americans become...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Voting Rights Act is down, but not out and civil rights leaders joined President Obama and...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – One of the primary goals of the 1963 March on Washington was finding or creating jobs for...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – With her voice laced with emotion, Sybrina Fulton, the soft-spoken mother of Trayvon Martin, urged delegates to...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – Fulfilling a pledge to aggressively protect the voting rights of people of color in the wake of...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – National Urban League President Marc H. Morial has called for “a new civil rights movement,” one that...
By Kevin G. Hall © McClatchy Washington Bureau June 26, 2013 WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s pick to lead the federal agency that oversees mortgage finance...
From Staff and Wire Reports Orlando Sentinel June 26, 2013 Aaron Hernandez was charged with murder and five gun-related charges in a Massachusetts court on Wednesday...
© Associated Press June 26, 2013 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A year away from basketball has rejuvenated Larry Bird. Now he wants to win a championship. Bird,...
© CBS News June 26, 2013 (CBS) SANFORD, Fla. – A friend of Florida teen Trayvon Martin who was on the phone with him just before...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, the part determining...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Rejecting calls for him to move closer toward his Republican critics, a confident President Barack H. Obama...
By Robin Givhan Washington Post Published: January 21 First lady Michelle Obama stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol during President Obama’s second-term swearing-in, holding...
By Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHIGTON (NNPA) – CNN has covered it. ABC News’ Nightline has done a feature on it. It has appeared in...
