By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist After the horror of the racist terrorist murders in Charleston, S.C., many of us have been crying out with...
By Willie Jolley NNPA Columnist Steve Gilliland is a motivational personality who did not read about rags to riches stories – he lived one. Today,...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I have seen many successes during my life, but I have never seen anything close to the rollout and...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Karl Marx famously wrote, “History repeats itself, first time as tragedy, second as farce.” So, his ghost must have...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Fighting for freedom and equality comes in numerous different forms, vessels and vocations, particularly in a society with...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Different Parenting Styles Dear Alma, My neighbor and I have been friends for three years. I relocated from out of...
Jonathan Martin, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — Republicans are growing increasingly concerned that Donald J. Trump’s inflammatory language is...
Nick Miroff, THE WASHINGTON POST HAVANA (The Washington Post) — The busy stretch of 23rd Street in Havana that slopes upward from the seawall...
James Brady, SB NATION NEW YORK (SBNation.com) — The New York Giants will meet with defensive lineman Jason Pierre-Paul on Monday, according to Ian Rapoport...
Julia Brucculieri, THE HUFFINGTON POST NEW YORK (The Huffington Post) — Damon Wayans is the latest celebrity to jump to the defense of Bill...
David Nakamura, THE WASHINGTON POST BOSTON (The Washington Post) — President Obama rallied union workers here Monday, announcing a new executive order that will...
Theodore R. Johnson, THE ATLANTIC (The Atlantic) — In 1988, the late Ed Brown, then-executive director of the Voter Education Project, watched as the...
Paul Singer, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today) — Members of Congress return from summer recess facing a Sept. 30 deadline to fund the federal government, a...
Sam Stebbins, Thomas C. Frohlich, Michael B. Sauter, and Evan Comen, 24/7 Wall St. via USA TODAY (USA Today) — Although drought conditions have...
Liana Aghajanian, AL JAZEERA AMERICA CLAREMONT, Calif. (Al Jazeera America) — Ask Debbie Allen, a black midwife, what it’s like to give birth as a...
Kimberly Freeman and Marc Bayard, NBC NEWS (NBC News) — From Black Lives Matter and Fight for $15 to North Carolina’s Forward Together Moral...
HAVANA, Cuba (The Tico Times) – Cuba has decided to allow doctors who deserted while on foreign missions to return home without punishment or loss of...
Clifford Ward, CHICAGO TRIBUNE UNIONTOWN, Ohio (Chicago Tribune) — A judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Ohio woman against a west suburban sperm...
Annie Pichardo, CLAPWAY (Clapway.com) — The Google search engine has for some time been a vital part of the Internet. It’s a catalyst to other...
Gosia Wozniacka, ASSOCIATED PRESS NORTH PLAINS, Ore. (AP) — Bertony Faustin didn’t set out to be Oregon’s first black winemaker. He just wanted to...
Nick Romano, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY ATLANTA (EW.com) — Tyler Perry has released a video tribute he made for Bobby Kristina Brown that was shown during her private funeral...
Juliet Macur, THE NEW YORK TIMES Serena Williams has a big sister who plays tennis. The big sister is the quieter one and the...
John Keim, ESPN WASHINGTON (ESPN) — The Washington Redskins plan to keep Robert Griffin III as their backup quarterback and will not release him...
Andrew Taylor and Alan Fram, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress returns on Tuesday with a critical need for a characteristic rarely evident through...
Tina Sfondeles, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES CHICAGO (The Chicago Sun-Times) — The hunger strike continued Friday for a group protesting Dyett High School’s new destiny as...