By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Brandyn Heppard usually arrives 30 minutes early for his visits to Northern State Prison in Newark, N.J....
(The Washington Post) – These days, defending Bill Cosby — accused of drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women — can be a dangerous endeavor. Those...
(NBC News) – Civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson’s mother, Helen Burns Jackson, died in a Greenville, South Carolina, hospital on Monday, according to Jackson and...
Sam Stebbins, Thomas C. Frohlich, Michael B. Sauter, and Evan Comen, 24/7 Wall St. via USA TODAY (USA Today) — Although drought conditions have...
Kimberly Freeman and Marc Bayard, NBC NEWS (NBC News) — From Black Lives Matter and Fight for $15 to North Carolina’s Forward Together Moral...
Clifford Ward, CHICAGO TRIBUNE UNIONTOWN, Ohio (Chicago Tribune) — A judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Ohio woman against a west suburban sperm...
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...
Kate Brumback, ASSOCIATED PRESS GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Citing a sliver of civil rights-era legislation more commonly used as protection against discriminatory landlords, a...
(Think Progress) – More than two years after a class action lawsuit exposed the quota policy behind the NYPD’s rampant use of stop-and-frisk, new lawsuits filed...
(The Washington Post) – A grand jury has charged a white Portsmouth, Va., police officer with first degree murder in connection with the killing of...
MEG KINNARD, Associated Press JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The state prosecutor in charge of trying Dylann Roof in what authorities have said...
(The Atlantic) – No one will be surprised to learn that the campaign to build a national movement against gentrification is being waged out of an...
Leeriness About Oath Keeper Promises to Help By Askia Muhammad and J.A. Salaam Special to the NNPA from The Final Call WASHINGTON – Into the toxic...
By Umar Lee Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American The funeral of Mansur Ball-Bey was a colorful, ecumenical and passionate affair. Mourners packed Christ...
MICHAEL TARM, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The killing of a veteran police officer north of Chicago is the latest in a string of recent law...
(The Washington Post) – Howard University students and alumni took their frustration public — and viral — Wednesday, with a gush of complaints on social media...
By Rhodesia Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call NEW ORLEANS – It’s been a decade since millions across the world witnessed the aftermath...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Truancy among Black students has far-ranging consequences, not just as a predictor for low academic achievement,...
BALTIMORE (ABC2News.com) – Two days have been set aside for each side in the Freddie Gray case to argue pretrial motions in front of Judge Barry...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The family of an unarmed black man shot to death by a white former police chief of a...
By Mariah Stewart Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American Walking into the church sanctuary, Natasha Kelly grabbed her eight-year-old’s hand. “You okay?” Kelly...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As Gulf Coast residents and policymakers celebrated the recovery of the Crescent City on the 10th...
MILWAUKEE (New York Times) — Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders after years of declines, and few places have witnessed a...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists, black and white, marched outside the Minnesota State Fair this weekend, hoping...
Kevin Rector, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — After months of sharply worded motions by prosecutors and defense attorneys, legal questions surrounding the...
