By Janelle Berry Special to the NNPA News Wire from the HU News Service WASHINGTON—The Central Intelligence Agency and a national organization that financially helps students...
[WTOP] BOWIE, Md. — In the wake of an online threat against Howard University and its students, as well as ongoing racial tension at the University...
By Savannah Harris Special to the NNPA News Wire from HU News Service WASHINGTON – Leaders of the nation’s major Black churches — representing nearly 13...
By Floyd Alvin Galloway Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Arizona Informant Tempe, Ariz., police are calling the death of five family members on...
On October 27, 2015, The U.S. Department of Justice & the FBI announced an investigation into how a South Carolina
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Contributing Writer Nissan, Toyota and Hyundai are the latest automakers to respond to the recently released Rainbow PUSH Automotive Project, which...
By Courtne Dixon Special to the NNPA News Wire Service from HU News Service WASHINGTON – The Black Lives Matter movement, who many have embraced and...
(Yahoo) – Ending months of will-he-won’t-he speculation, Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he is not running for president in 2016, saying the process of...
HOUSTON — A 22-year-old Houston man has been charged with murder and aggravated assault in the shooting death of a Texas Southern University freshman and the...
By Tyler Doggett and Jeffrey Boney Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Houston Forward Times On Friday, October 9, Texas Southern University (TSU), a...
By Freddie Allen Senior NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite relative improvement in job growth from 2013 to 2014, Black women continue to struggle in...
(Slate) – Early in the morning on Jan. 3, 1984, Janet Burke, a 20-year-old white woman, was opening the day care center where she worked at...
(The Washington Post) – It’s fair to say that both Ta-Nehisi Coates and Lin-Manuel Miranda were already having a pretty impressive 2015. Coates, a journalist lauded...
(Slate) – Washington state’s education system has made national news several times in the past few months, mostly for not-awesome reasons: First, a court ordered the...
By Jerry Ford II Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Hundreds packed the Washington Convention Center as an early crowd witnessed the “Black...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black women were murdered at more than double the rate of White women in 2012 and almost...
Jason Silverstein, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (The New York Daily News) – Perpetual lunatic George Zimmerman retweeted an image over the weekend showing the...
Matt Ferner, THE HUFFINGTON POST WILMINGTON, Del. (The Huffington Post) – A graphic cell phone video purportedly shows police in Wilmington, Delaware, fatally shooting a...
(News Max) – A brawl that erupted at a suburban Tampa Publix supermarket when a customer used a racial slur while ordering chicken wings was caught...
WALLER COUNTY, TEXAS (The Huffington Post) – On July 13, Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, was found dead in her jail cell in Waller County,...
TALLAHASSEE (Miami Herald) – Most out-of-work Floridians will never see a jobless benefits check from the state. In fact, a report this week from the National Employment...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing before a rapt Congress, Pope Francis issued a ringing call to action on behalf...
