Russell Simmons’ RushCard Makes Strong Comeback

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) Russell Simmons is just starting to regain a little normalcy in his life. He’s back at yoga...

Officer in Freddie Gray death, Edward Nero, not guilty on all counts

[MSNBC.COM] One of the six officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray was found not guilty on all counts in Baltimore Monday. Baltimore...

New Report: Despite Progress, Deep Inequality Plagues Black America

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributor) In 1976, then-President Gerald Ford delivered the annual “State of the Union Address,” virtually ignoring the plight of...

TSDtv — Cast of "Underground" Q&A at National Civil Rights Museum (May 2016)

School Officials in Texas Waste Real Money Looking for Fake Cash on Campus

By Jeffrey L. Boney (Houston Forward Times, NNPA Member) Two separate counterfeit bill cases have gained national attention after the Fort Bend Independent School District (FBISD)...

TSDtv — Cast of "Underground" comes to Memphis

#BlackWallstChallenge – Tri-State Defender – Memphis

Obama Urges Howard Graduates to Continue Needed Change

By Howard University News Service WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told the graduates of one of the nation’s leading historically Black universities that America is “a...

Afeni Shakur, Mother of Tupac Shakur and Activist, Dead at 69

Obama, Out: The Commander-In-Chief Proves Once Again that He’s the Best to Ever Do It

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) President Barack Obama dropped his microphone at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, acknowledging what everyone had...

TSDtv: The Brian Clay Chronicles — Why We Can't Wait

The Great Migration was a Triumph of the Black Press

By Erick Johnson (From The Chicago Crusader, NNPA Member) There were over six hundred Black families applying for 53 apartment units in just one day in...

Musical Icon Prince Dead at 57

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NNPA, Chevrolet Announce 2016 Discover the Unexpected Journalism Fellows

By Freddie Allen (NNPA National News Editor) Sidnee King, a 20 year-old broadcast journalism student at Howard University, admitted that she was nervous about her summer...

Phill Wilson: Still Answering the Black AIDS Call at 60 Years-old

By Karen Ocamb (Black AIDS Institute) The first cases of what became HIV/AIDS hit the news on June 5, 1981. Soon, Phill Wilson, then just 25,...

The Truth Behind the “Black Exodus” at the RNC

By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) The Republican National Committee (RNC) is refuting claims that a number of key African-American employees were either...

WATCH LIVE: 2016 National Action Network National Convention

Watch live streaming video from officialnationalactionnetwork at livestream.com

Ben Carson Backs Donald Trump, Criticizes GOP Outreach in the Black community

By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire National News Editor) Former Republican presidential nominee and famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson said that he trusts Donald Trump to address...

Chicago Home of “The First Lady of the Black Press” Is Falling Apart

By Erick Johnson (The Chicago Crusader, NNPA Member) The roof is coming apart. The creaky wooden porch is aging with growing cracks. And the navy blue...

Mississippi woman who tried to join ISIS pleads guilty

(CBSNEWS.COM) In her farewell letter as she was leaving to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Jaelyn Young told her family she was...

NNPA, Chevrolet Launch Historic Internship Program at Howard University

By Freddie Allen (NNPA National News Managing Editor) In an effort to provide student journalists with a unique experience working in the Black Press, the National...

Historic Black Press Week Captivates D.C.

[PHOTO] NNPA President Benjamin Chavis speaks outside of the U.S. Capitol during a joint press conference between NNPA and NAHP. Washington, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton...

Darnell Earley Tells His Side

[PHOTO] Former Flint, Mich., Emergency Manager Darnell Earley recently spoke to the Black Press about the Flint water crisis. (Steve Carmody/Michigan Public Radio) By Keith A. Owens, Michigan...

Gerri Warren, the Late Publisher of The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint, Enshrined

[PHOTO] Chida Warren-Darby, co-publisher of The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint, lights a candle for her mother and former publisher of the Viewpoint, the late Gerri...

Flint Residents Deserve Better than This

[PHOTO] Armstrong Williams says that state and local officials failed Flint residents when it created the water crisis and is failing them now with their lack...