(Los Angeles Times) – Lola Fajinmi and Precious Nwaoha were both A students in high school. But once they got to USC, the African American women...
(Time) – When I started playing basketball as a freshman at UCLA, coach John Wooden told us a bunch of crazy ideas about useless drills we...
(NBC News) – A growing movement against the jailing of poor offenders who cannot pay fines has hit New Hampshire, where the local American Civil Liberties...
CLAUDIA LAUER, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Though only a short stretch of Little Rock’s Confederate Boulevard remains, to some it is a glaring...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – At the end of July, a man named Middle Passage boarded a bus from his home in...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call LOS ANGELES (The Final Call) – Many different groups and organizations are rallying and making preparations...
KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The Sunday service at Oasis Tabernacle Church had started like any other: A prayer was recited over the...
(New York Times) – For as long as I can remember, certain relatives of mine were always dismayed and often enraged by the daily headlines and...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – At a reception during the 45th Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) Annual Legislative Conference, the National Newspaper...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times “…The justice that we seek will not come from these courts, it will...
(The Washington Post) – After the University of Missouri’s student-body president heard people yelling a racial slur at him from the back of a pickup truck,...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – This Friday, more than 400 Black role models will visit students at schools in 67 cities across...
Phil Trexler, WKYC-TV Cleveland via USA TODAY CLEVELAND (USA Today) — The dispatcher who told police that a male outside of a Cleveland recreation center...
Jesse J. Holland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Black Lives Matter network will skip a presidential endorsement but keep up its political activism by...
Katie Nodjimbadem, SMITHSONIAN (Smithsonian.com) – Aunt Jemima’s warm smile, pearl earrings and perfectly coiffed hair are easily recognizable in the breakfast foods aisle in grocery...
WHITNEY, Texas (Fox News 4) – A Central Texas man who claimed anti-police vandals had attacked the family pickup truck has been arrested after police...
ALANNA DURKIN, Associated Press CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — Protests continued Friday over a western Virginia high school’s ban on Confederate flags displayed on clothing and cars,...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (The Washington Post) — Joey Meek, a friend of admitted Charleston shooter Dylann Roof, pleaded not guilty Friday to two federal charges related to...
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NEW HAVEN (New York Times) — When Maya Jenkins was accepted to Yale, her family erupted in joy. Still, her mother confessed a concern: that her daughter...
NEW YORK (CBS News) – An aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who was shot in the crossfire between two gangs hours before the city’s West...
Thomas C. Frohlich and Alexander Kent, 24/7 WALL ST. (247WallSt.com) – The United States added 3.2 million jobs in 2014, a greater addition to...
David Warren and Jamie Stengle, ASSOCIATED PRESS IRVING, Texas (AP) — A 14-year-old Muslim boy became a sensation on social media Wednesday and got...
Meg Kinnard and Jeffrey Collins, ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal authorities have told a friend of the man accused of fatally shooting...
(The Washington Post) – When Fox Lake police officer Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was found mortally wounded along a forested road in this sleepy northern Illinois town, his fellow...
