by Akeya Dickson NNPA Washington Correspondent So far this year, there have been 263 murders in Chicago, a 39 percent increase over last year’s 189 homicides....
by Akeya Dickson NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As more people become covered as a result of the Affordable Care Act recently upheld by the...
by Akeya Dickson NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Marie Bangura played host to some impromptu family bonding this weekend by turning her home into a...
by Akeya Dickson NNPA Washington Correspondent ATLANTA (NNPA) – When the lights darken, the curtains draw open and a story unfolds on stage, the energy of...
By Akeya Dickson Washington Correspondent NNPA News Service As the interest rates on higher education loans ratchet up higher and higher year to year, loan forgivingness...
By Akeya Dickson Washington Correspondent NNPA News Service During Russell Simmons’ recent visit to Israel, he realized the longstanding Palestinian-Israeli conflict looked a lot like something...
[Politico] It was bound to happen: First, there was the Obama Girl, aka Amber Lee Ettinger, who turned heads in 2008 with her seductive YouTube videos in praise...
[MSNBC] African-Americans are 25 percent more likely to die from cancer than white Americans are, and the reasons are numerous, including lower socio-economic status, poorer access to health care,...
[The Washington Post] For six years, their parents had nagged and prodded and pressed them to perform. Now this group of African American seniors in Loudoun...
[The Examiner] Reverend Fred Leuter, Jr. Pastor of the Franklin Avenue Baptist Church (FABC) in New Orleans is primed to soon become the first African American President of...
[Essence] “The idea that a good marriage is made in heaven and swung down on a golden cord like a gift from God did not coincide with...
[News One] A recent study suggests that African-American couples affected by the trials of prostate cancer face emotional challenges that increase the burden of combating the disease. Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer...
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[The New York Times] Jestina Clayton grew up in a village in Sierra Leone where every girl learns traditional African hair-braiding. Then, when she was 22,...
(The Washington Post) For nearly a decade, Beth Jacobson lived inside the vast machinery of subprime mortgages that shook the nation’s economy. In sworn court testimony, she described watching loan...
(The Guardian) House oversight committee chairman and firebrand Obama administration critic Darrell Issa is touting his first draft of a Digital Bill of Rights for internet denizens, and...
