By Ashahed M. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call CHICAGO (The Final Call) – Four have been charged with attempted murder in a...
(Denver Post) – Child sex assault charges leveled in Colorado last year against the brother of Rachel Dolezal, the embattled former Spokane, Wash., NAACP chapter president,...
By Zenobia Jeffries Special to the NNPA SPECIAL REPORT DETROIT – Most women say there is no greater pain than to bear a child, I say there is...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Education reform alone isn’t enough to close achievement gaps between Blacks and Whites, according to a...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – It was a typical Friday night when journalist, author, and political analyst, Sophia A. Nelson did what she...
(Politico) – Rachel Dolezal, the former president of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, Washington, said Tuesday that the timing of the controversy surrounding her racial identity...
WASHINGTON (WUSA9.com) — An October 2014 lead into the Relisha Rudd case led a volunteer New Jersey dive team to the Anacostia River on...
(TheSmokingGun.com) — The NAACP official who today resigned in the face of evidence that she masqueraded as black once sued Howard University for denying her teaching...
Daniel Zadik, THE CONVERSATION (TheConversation.com) — Food intolerance is often dismissed as a modern invention and a “first-world problem”. However, a study analysing the...
By Lynette Holloway Special to the NNPA via The Atlanta Daily World (NNPA) — Long before Rachel Dolezal, head of the Spokane, Washington NAACP...
William Grimes, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — Dolores Spikes, who became the first woman to head a university system in the United...
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The president of the NAACP’s Spokane, Washington, chapter has resigned as furor mounted over her racial identity, after her parents...
Nicholas K. Geranios, ASSOCIATED PRESS SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Spokane NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal says she will speak about the furor over racial identity...
Al Baker, J. David Goodman, and Benjamin Mueller, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times) — Eric Garner was lumbering along a sidewalk...
Danica Smithwick, THE JACKSON SUN (The Jackson Sun) — To commemorate the 150th anniversary of “Juneteenth,” African-American Freedom Day, the Freedmen’s Bureau will launch...
(Reuters) – Police hunting two escaped convicts for a seventh day on Friday swarmed the heavily wooded area near an upstate New York prison as...
(Salon) – The McKinney, Tx. pool party incident, at which a cop pulled his weapon on unarmed, nonviolent teenagers and then shoved one face-first onto...
LARRY O’DELL, Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A University of Virginia student who was bloodied by state liquor agents during an arrest that sparked a...
(BuzzFeed) – Surrounded by expensive homes and a lush green park, the pool in Craig Ranch, McKinney, has long functioned as a focal point for...
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — A judge said Thursday that enough evidence exists to charge two white policemen in the fatal shooting of a...
DAVID WARREN, Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — A white Texas police officer was not targeting minorities when he wrestled a black teenage girl to the ground...
(Dallas Morning News) – I had become numb to the constant exposure to vicious racism caught on video. It’s my mechanism for coping with rising...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Black community should take a larger role in curbing mass incarceration and be less reliant on...
(Salon) – Black America is tired. The liminal existence of Ellison’s invisible man; Cornel West’s brilliant meditation on “niggerization” as a state of existential fear, where...
DAVID WARREN, Associated Press TERRY WALLACE, Associated Press McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A white police officer in suburban Dallas has resigned after he was recorded on...
