NNPA NEWSWIRE — As of June 2018, more than 1.2 million student loan borrowers requested to be certified, with 890,000 ultimately certified eligible. 28,000 applied for...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — At different times over the past five years, Frank J. Phillips, Marcia Pearl and Vincent Miles said they ran into a buzz saw...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Unreasonably curtailing parole releases and silencing the political voices of those who have been released from prison is bad policy, guaranteed to reproduce...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder Friday, October 5, by a jury at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — With the midterm elections just weeks away, activists and others are keeping keen eyes on any semblance of voter suppression – or worse....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The experts also allege that prosecutors hid evidence that would exonerate Cosby and some claim that despite the high-powered and successful attorneys at...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Dr. Ford delivered a compelling and credible account of her horrific encounter with Brett Kavanaugh and I believe her. He, on the other...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The inmates have put together a list of demands, which include increased prison wages, more rehabilitation services and more Pell grants. The prisoners...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “For far too long, certain financial professionals have been able to game the system and choose a standard of care that allows them...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Without examining Cosby and apparently using just trial testimony, the “expert” witness said she determined that the star “is a sexually violent predator...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Police Chief Raimundo Atesiano’s actions were intended to give his community a false sense of security and were a betrayal of his oath...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — NNPA Newswire has learned exclusively from a high-ranking courthouse source in Pennsylvania that an independent FBI-approved forensic lab has examined an audio recording...
“It is also a fact that Black men are more likely to be prosecuted and then given severe sentences than white men, even though rates of...
“This is a discriminatory state law that is antiquated and almost equates to the laws that discriminated against racial minorities decades ago when they were required...
A source whom can only be identified as a ‘neutral’ Montgomery County Court official, claims a tape played in court that helped convict Bill Cosby was...
"...I cried right there in my seat. I was furious. I was hurt … despondent, even. How was this reality? In that moment, I felt as...
MILWAUKEE TIMES — Milwaukee police officers did nothing wrong when they used a stun gun on Bucks’ guard Sterling Brown during his arrest over a parking...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The residents of Charlotte had no idea their entire city would be turned upside down due to killings of one of the...
BLACK VOICE NEWS — Police brutality continues to plague Black and Brown communities and interactions that would otherwise be mundane and uneventful for other Californians often...
THE AFRO — The fallout from the disgraced Gun Trace Task Force broadened after a Baltimore County police officer whose name surfaced during the trial of...
Victories for Black Americans, and for all others who stand freedom, justice and equality, do not come easy and do not occur without a prolonged, sustained...
