Brian Melley, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — It began with a routine traffic stop, blossomed into a protest with the help of a rumor...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist On August 6, the Voting Rights Act, keystone of the civil rights movement, will mark its 50th anniversary. This...
Ananth Pandian, CBS SPORTS (CBS Sports) — With Damian Lillard, John Wall, Derrick Rose and Andrew Wiggins on its roster, Adidas has some of...
The fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, by a white Ferguson, Missouri, policeman was a catalyst for change in the St. Louis...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist In the Braxton’s world, things are looking up. After heated arguments, a reality check from King TD Jakes, some internal...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT (NNPA) – Although the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado Crew Cab is a big truck at almost 5,500 pounds, it...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Thursday, Aug. 6, marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1965 Voting Rights Act into...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Had I ever met Sandra Bland, I am sure I would have liked her. She is described as an advocate...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Sandra Bland is dead. While many are concentrating on “how” she died, we must also face the reality of “why”...
By Oscar Blayton NNPA Guest Columnist In the depths of the Cold War that raged in the early 1960s, the USSR was scoring points against...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the world’s leading peace and justice advocates, has called Bryan Stevenson “America’s...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Many years ago, as a single man in my early 30s, I dated a young, attractive West African woman. I liked...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist August 17 will mark the 128th birthday of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the visionary Jamaican-born leader who built the Universal Negro...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist If you are a college student, a recent college graduate or even a college drop-out, student loan debt is not...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Let me start with a quote from my mentor, the late Arthur A. Fletcher: “If your life becomes so...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The videos are becoming more and more difficult to watch, aren’t they? But it’s not because we’ve become inured...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist When The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan issues a sacred clarion call for a national and international mobilization for...
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Protest marches have been part of Selma’s civil rights fabric since 1965, but an 860-mile trek to Washington had a...
Julia Payne and Felix Onuah, REUTERS ABUJA, Nigeria (Reuters) — Nigeria’s army said late on Sunday that it rescued 178 people held by Islamist militant...
Lauren Abdel-Razzaq, THE DETROIT FREE PRESS DETROIT (The Detroit Free Press) — The number of African-American males applying to medical school has steadily declined every year except...
Maane Khatchatourian, VARIETY (Variety.com) — Netflix has set a theatrical release date for its first original film. Cary Fukunaga’s “Beasts of No Nation” will hit...
Elizabeth Wagmeister, VARIETY (Variety) — Russell Simmons has inked an overall first-look production and development deal with HBO, the premium cabler announced Thursday. Under the...
Amy Chozick, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times) — For months, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been telling crowds, the news media,...
Marina Fang, THE HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post) — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Sunday expressed skepticism over the purpose of the Black Lives Matter...
Lucy McCalmont, THE HUFFINGTON POST GOLETA, Calif. (Huffington Post) — When you’re the best, you’re the best. Michael Jordan showed everyone he still has skills...
