By Marsha Rose Joyner Special to the NNPA from The Afro (The Afro)—“History does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary,...
Schuyler Dixon, ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS (AP) — The Mavericks and New York Knicks agreed Wednesday to a six-player trade that returns center Tyson Chandler to Dallas three years...
Joshua Goodman, ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The taste of soccer glory is still fresh for Andre Rodrigues de Principe, even as his...
Howard Fendrich, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON (AP) — Let others wonder when or whether Venus Williams might move on from tennis. She’s not ready to contemplate going anywhere...
Lee Moran, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (New York Daily News)—Jay Z and Beyoncé have at last made their wedding video public. The tender moment Hova tied...
(NNPA)—A study from the American Heart Association finds that watching three or more hours of television everyday—as opposed to one hour or less—doubles the chance of...
Ron Charles, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—This is a strange, unsatisfying story about public figures and public outrage. It starts with this provocative metaphor: Our ever-rising...
Bob Christie, ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal broke down in tears Wednesday at the end of a news...
Tony Perry, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES Maura Dolan, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON (Los Angeles Times)—When David Riley, a 19-year-old member of San Diego’s Lincoln...
Julie Snider, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today)– Facebook, the world’s most popular social network, released statistics on the makeup of its workforce that do...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT – The 2014 Toyota 4Runner is a throwback, one of the few true sport utilities on the market. That,...
Mark Sherman, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the president’s power to fill high-level vacancies with temporary appointments, ruling in...
Nancy Dillon, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (New York Daily News)—Five years ago today, the world seemed to stop its rotation at the news the King...
Rosalind S. Helderman, WASHINGTON POST Phillip Bump, WASHINGTON POST JACKSONVILLE, Miss. (The Washington Post)—In an e-mail sent late last week, the black Democratic mayor of Vicksburg,...
Paul Overberg, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Slowing Hispanic immigration and birth rates are shifting the USA’s growth toward Asians, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. For the second...
Barbara Ortutay, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Some 1 billion people are now using Android devices, Google said as the company kicked off its two-day developer...
Jim Vertuno, ASSOCIATED PRESS NATAL, Brazil (AP) — Biting opponents, racist comments — all that looked to be behind Luis Suarez, as soccer’s bad boy was maturing into...
LONDON (AP) — Five-time champion Serena Williams made light work of Anna Tatishvili, beating the fellow American 6-1, 6-2 to reach the second round at Wimbledon on Tuesday. Williams,...
John Wagner and Jenna Johnson, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown cruised past his two rivals in Maryland’s bitter Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday,...
Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to mobilize a global front against anti-gay violence and discrimination, Vice President Joe Biden declared Tuesday that...
Doug Ferguson, ASSOCIATED PRESS BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — About two dozen photographers lined up in a row on the range Tuesday at Congressional, a reminder...
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...
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...
