Andy Cush, GAWKER FERGUSON, Mo. (Gawker) — The Oath Keepers in Ferguson just lost their highest-profile member. Sam Andrews, who led armed members of...
Justin Glave, THE DAILY BEAST LEE COUNTY, Miss. (The Daily Beast) — Rickey Thompson started a drug court to start treating offenders and stop imprisoning...
Maxwell Stratchan, THE HUFFINGTON POST (The Huffington Post) — In the moments before he took the stage at NBCUniversal’s “A Concert for Hurricane Relief” on Sept....
John Byrne and Juan Perez Jr., THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE CHICAGO (The Chicago Tribune) — Hunger strike protesters trying to save a high school ratcheted up the...
Jon Swaine, THE GUARDIAN PORTSMOUTH, Va. (The Guardian) — A young black man arrested by police in Portsmouth, Virginia has been found dead in jail...
FERGUSON, MO (KTVI) – An arrest has been made in connection with the fatal shooting of a 9-year-old in Ferguson. Ferguson police worked with St. Louis...
ROANOKE, Va. (New York Times) — For two years after losing yet another television job, Vester Lee Flanagan II lived in a nondescript apartment across the...
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sixty years after a black Chicago teenager was killed for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi,...
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) – Friends and fans of an student shot and killed at Savannah State University Thursday night took to social media Friday to mourn the...
by Karsceal Turner Special to the NNPA from The Florida Courier Is self-defense biblical? Are Christians required to forgive, as in the case of the Charleston...
ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer Even after gunning down a TV news reporter and cameraman during a live interview, Vester Lee Flanagan II continued to rage....
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Amelia Boynton Robinson, who died Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala. at the age of 104, is being...
STEVE HELBER, Associated Press PAM RAMSEY, Associated Press JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press MONETA, Va. (AP) — A TV reporter and cameraman were shot to death during...
PHILLIP LUCAS, Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who nearly died while helping lead the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights...
NEW ORLEANS (New York Times) — It is a wonder that any of it is here at all: The scattered faithful gathering into Beulah Land Baptist...
NEW YORK (CBS Sports) — The photo of a young woman coated in dust and ash was one of the iconic images of September 11, 2001....
by Kenya Vaughn Special to the NNPA from The St. Louis American “Hey, how have you been,” said Cathy Daniels, affectionately known to Ferguson protesters as...
by Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American The weather was a steamy 82 degrees on August 16 around 5 p.m. when...
ATLANTA (USA Today) — Atlanta police are investigating controversial graffiti that was left on a side of a city building. In the graffiti, cartoon character Elmer Fudd is wearing a...
