Peter Nickeas, Alexandra Chachkevitch and Jeremy Gorner, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE CHICAGO (The Chicago Tribune) — After a relatively quiet start to the Fourth of July...
Jeffery Collins, ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The depth of support for bringing down the Confederate flag gets its first test in the South Carolina...
Rachel L. Swarns, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times) — The lanky black detective strode to the front of the...
Lauren Talarico, KHOU 11 NEWS SPRING, Texas (KHOU.com) — A Spring family is trying to figure out who vandalized their truck overnight with hate speech...
Janet McConnaughey, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS (AP) — About to be overrun by Germans, a young black lieutenant called in an artillery barrage on his...
Elias Isquith, SALON (Salon.com) — It’s been a little more than two weeks since nine human beings, all African-American, were murdered in a Charleston, South...
(NBC News) – Police have said so for years and now scientists have measured the effect: Mass shootings and school attacks do inspire copycats. As...
(CNN) – Baltimore authorities are investigating after photos emerged showing a sign inside the door of a police van that reads, “Enjoy your ride, cuz...
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press RAY HENRY, Associated Press GREELEYVILLE, South Carolina (AP) — As social media buzzed about church fires in the South, investigators announced Thursday...
(The Washington Post) – History is the polemics of the victor, William F. Buckley once said. Not so in the United States, at least not...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times This past Thursday, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Board of Trustees voted...
The Associated Press The national president of a U.S. civil-rights group said Wednesday that Confederate symbols represent “treason” and should be removed from public objects, including...
(Los Angeles Times) – The Supreme Court term that ended this week will be remembered for the landmark ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, but...
(NPR) – In the 1990s, states went on a prison-building binge. Today, millions who spent time in those prisons are back in society — and...
ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Exotic dancers hired as admissions counselors. Recruiters told to seek out “impatient” individuals who have “few people in their...
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press MEG KINNARD, Associated Press GREELEYVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Preliminary indications suggest arson was not the cause of a fire that destroyed a...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As students slip into their summer vacations, it’s up to families to make sure they don’t slip...
DETROIT (NNPA) – Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher of the Washington Informer, has been elected chair of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a federation of more than 200...
by Kenya Vaughn Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American “His sacrifice must lead to reconciliation,” said U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC). Rev. Clementa...
By Barney Blakeney Special to the NNPA from The Charleston Chronicle The heinous June 17 massacre of nine African American worshippers at Mother Emanuel AME Church...
By Barney Blakeney Special to the NNPA from The Charleston Chronicle Dylann Storm Roof on June 17 walked into Emanuel AME Church through a side door...
JOHN MORITZ, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The day she was killed along with eight others during Bible study at a South Carolina church, Myra...
MEG KINNARD, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal authorities say they are investigating recent fires at predominantly black churches, though the blazes do not appear...
Tre’vell Anderson, THE L.A. TIMES LOS ANGELES (The Los Angeles Times) — At the end of a week full of celebratory moments — Supreme Court...
