Martin Pengelly, THE GUARDIAN NEW YORK (The Guardian) — Singer Janelle Monáe was in effect silenced during an appearance on NBC’s Today show on Friday...
Michael Cavna, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — In some ways, it’s like 1988 all over again. Because in culturally resonant times, N.W.A. has...
Adam Liptak, THE NEW YORK TIMES SHREVEPORT, La. (The New York Times) — Here are some reasons prosecutors have offered for excluding blacks from...
Ken Thomas, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONG GROVE, Iowa (AP) — After bounding atop a blue trailer in a community park, Bernie Sanders quickly reminded people here...
Michael E. Ruane, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — By all rights, Ruby Sales should have been killed on Friday, Aug. 20, 1965. She...
Jerry Mitchell, THE CLARION-LEDGER JACKSON, Miss. (The Clarion-Ledger) — In a letter appearing in a full-page ad in today’s Clarion-Ledger, author John Grisham, actor Morgan...
Anne-Marie Garcia and Michael Weissenstein, ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA (AP) — The blazing Caribbean sun rose Saturday on a U.S. flag flying over Havana for the...
Brian Barrett, WIRED (Wired.com) — AT&T has adjusted its data plans yet again. This time, the available options seem structured to push customers towards a big-bucket...
George A. King III, NEW YORK POST TORONTO (New York Post) — With the Yankees setting aside Sept. 13 at Yankee Stadium to celebrate Alex...
Janell Ross, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — In 1988, when crack wars raged in communities across the country, hip-hop was still a relatively...
LOS ANGELES (EURWeb.com) – The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA), is proud to announce that it will celebrate the 25th anniversary of “Boyz N the...
Dan Balz, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — By many accounts, Vice President Biden has spent his vacation week mulling whether to run...
Dana Leibelson, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Huffington Post) — A Las Vegas campaign event for GOP presidential contender Jeb Bush came to a sudden...
Julia Craven, Ryan Grimm, and Ryan J. Reilly, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Huffington Post) — Activists DeRay Mckesson and Brittany Packnett recently spoke with Hillary Clinton’s policy...
Anya Kamenetz, NPR NEW ORLEANS (NPR.com) — On Sept. 15, 2005, two weeks after Katrina and the levee breaches, I drove with my parents into...
Raja Jorjani, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — Suppose a client walked into my office and told me that police officers in his country...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT (NNPA) – Let’s see, the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Convertible. There’s not too much more to say than...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The 50th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act fell on the same day that Fox News...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist I applaud the Black Lives Matter Movement for renewing attention on police violence against Blacks, an issue that is old...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Many people see this situation escalating, and I think it shows the frustration that many minority communities feel when...
By Oscar H. Blayton NNPA Guest Columnist For more than a century, African tour operators (usually White) have helped their European and American clients bag...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist With as much meaningless and non-redeeming information being discussed on radio and TV among Black folks, I often wonder if...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Money and credit are two items that affect nearly everyone. We earn, spend and sometimes save money. But it seems...
By Willie Jolley NNPA Columnist No investors. No venture capitalists. No “Fund Me” campaigns. It was “bootstrapping” with all the money taken from their savings account...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Thousands of pages have been written about the achievement gap – the fact that White kids score higher than either...