“We find ourselves at crossroads in history” By Larry Miller Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – NAACP president and CEO Cornell W....
Adrian Sainz, ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — D’Army Bailey, a lawyer and judge who helped preserve the Memphis hotel where civil rights leader...
By Terry Shropshire Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender CHICAGO (NNPA) — It is a jarring and disquieting sight to see an...
John Marzulli, Ginger Adams Otis, and Stephen Rex Brown, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS NEW YORK (The New York Daily News) — A $5 million...
Jon Swaine, THE GUARDIAN STONEWALL, Miss. (The Guardian) — State officials in Mississippi are investigating the death of an unarmed black man who was killed...
Vanessa Williams, THE WASHINGTON POST CHARLESTON, S.C. (The Washington Post) — The elaborate ceremony Friday to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of...
(Christian Science Monitor) – As gun violence spikes once again in Chicago, gun control advocates in the city are pointing fingers at an old enemy: the...
(The Washington Post) – Getting an advanced degree doesn’t come cheap, which is why graduate students carry nearly half of all student debt. But it turns out that a handful...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey says the gunman charged in the Charleston church massacre should not have been allowed to...
By Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper The recent massacre of nine congregants in an African-American church in Charleston, S.C., by a...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press MEG KINNARD, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Confederate flag was lowered from the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse to...
(Chicago Tribune) – Residents and activists fanned out at a busy intersection on Detroit’s east side, blocks from where a suburban high school girl was gunned...
(USA Today) – After seeing years of decline in violent crime, several major American cities experienced a dramatic surge in homicides during the first half...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Less than three years ago, Anthony Batts was hand-picked by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to combat crime and reform...
(Miami Herald) – On Feb. 13, the Miami-Dade Aviation Department honored “not only members of the Greatest Generation” but “the Greatest Generation Plus.” Three South Florida...
PLANO (New York Times) — Lamesa White and her four children moved in February from the most dangerous public housing project in Dallas to a single-family...
(Los Angeles Times) – Dylann Roof faces three new attempted murder charges after a grand jury indicted him Tuesday on suspicion of carrying out the...
CHICAGO (The Washington Post) – When the Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968, it barred the outright racial discrimination that was then routine. It also required the...
By Denise Hooks-Anderson, M.D. Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American Nothing says summer like flip-flops, bathing suits, ice-cream cones and concerts in the...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A 7-year-old boy who was one of seven people shot to death in Chicago over the holiday weekend was...
(Slate) – Here’s a map put together by historian Liam Hogan, with help from five co-conspirators. Hogan and his group are trying to track past instances...
By Barney Blakeney Special to the NNPA from The Charleston Chronicle The search for a new Charleston County schools superintendent has been an ongoing controversy. Last...
By Bethania Palma Markus Special to the NNPA from The Westside Gazette At least five Black churches burned overnight recently and three have been attributed to arson....
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Sixty-six percent of states that elect prosecutors have no blacks in those offices, a new study has found, highlighting the lack...
Rich Schapiro and Dareh Gregorian, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS NEW YORK (The New York Daily News) — She might be Eric Garner’s daughter, but...
