(The Washington Post) – If it had not been for a disagreement with my mother on that Friday night in August, perhaps my body would be...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In a wide-ranging conference call with the Black Press, the Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan...
by Kenya Vaughn Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American Kendric Henderson’s face cringed as she slowly limped on crutches to join the march...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On Tuesday [Aug.25], the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) opened the application process for the Apple...
Evan Sernoffsky, SAN FRANCISCO GATE NAPA VALLEY (San Francisco Gate) — What started as a joyous ride through wine county Saturday afternoon turned into a...
Sarah Wheaton, POLITICO EDGARTOWN, Mass. (Politico) – For America’s black elite, this year’s seasonal sojourn to Martha’s Vineyard turned into a soul-searching retreat. The shooting...
Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D., THE POYNTER INSTITUTE (The Poynter Institute) — When I opened the door to my office after a summer doing research and...
Brad Heath, USA TODAY BALTIMORE (USA Today) — The crime itself was ordinary: Someone smashed the back window of a parked car one evening and...
Tom Foreman, Jr., ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A juror who heard evidence in the trial of a white North Carolina police officer said...
Nigel Duara, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ST. LOUIS (The L.A. Times) — An 18-year-old black man died from a single gunshot wound to the back...
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has ordered flags to fly half-staff to honor late civil rights leader Julian Bond on same day his...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The latest on the trial of a white North Carolina police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death...
by Jessica R. Key Special to the NNPA from The Indianapolis Recorder Whether in print, on television or on social media, people are beginning to use...
MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated Press PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) — Kamau Sadiki traveled from the nation’s capital to Michigan to join a dive team charged with officially...
BRIDGETON, N.J. (AP) — A grand jury voted not to file charges against two police officers for fatally shooting a man in New Jersey who defied...
(Mic) – Since Jan. 1, 2015, police in the United States have killed a staggering 745 people. According to statistics provided to Mic by research collective Mapping Police Violence, American police...
(New York Times) – After Julian Bond’s death on Saturday, The Times published a lengthy and well-written obituary summing up the life and work of the civil rights...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officers arrested at least nine people and deployed tear gas amid protests in St....
(24/7 Wall St) – Racial segregation in U.S. neighborhoods has declined over the past several decades but it remains very high. Meanwhile, residential segregation by income...
by Terry Shropshire Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Daily World UNION CITY, Ga. (Atlanta Daily World) — The acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District...
(Salon) – No living historian has done more to shape our understanding of the American Civil War era than Eric Foner. A rare scholar who is...
KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A grand jury indicted two former Atlanta-area police officers on murder charges after prosecutors said they used stun guns...
