President Obama Celebrates 150th Anniversary of the 13th Amendment

By Janelle Berry Special to the NNPA News Wire from the HU News Service WASHINGTON – Ask Americans what the Emancipation Proclamation is and most who...

Cease Fire… Don't Smoke The Brothers & Sisters 5th Annual Thanksgiving – Washington Informer

Iraq War veteran killed at Planned Parenthood was trying to save others, his family says

[YAHOO NEWS] An Iraq War veteran was killed in Friday’s shootings at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., while trying to save others, family...

Marchers protest CPD handling of Laquan McDonald’s murder

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Benjamin Chavis Urges Support for Black Lives Matter Movement

By Sarafina Wright Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Washington Informer For many elders who participated in the Black Liberation Movement of the ’60s...

TSDtv — Exclusive Interview with Nation of Islam Student Minister Nuri Muhammad

Shooting in New Orleans Park Leaves at least 16 People Wounded

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Minneapolis Mayor Takes Heat over Handling of Clark Shooting

[STAR TRIBUNE] The uproar over the fatal police shooting of Jamar Clark is turning into a political crisis for Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges, whose handling of...

Minneapolis Police Shoot, Kill Another Unarmed Black Man

By Harry Colbert, Jr. and Insight News Editors Special to the NNPA News Wire from Insight News Add Jamar Clark to the list. That was the...

Cora L Rice Elementary March To FedEx Field Washington Informer

How a Beating, Three Murders led to the Murder of Tyshawn Lee

By J. Coyden Palmer Special to the NNPA News Wire from The Chicago Crusader CHICAGO — It all began around 6 a.m. on Aug. 5 when...

Hundreds Celebrate as Nation’s African American Museum Nears Completion

By Savannah Harris Special to the NNPA News Wire from HU News Service WASHINGTON — Hundreds of people gathered at an inaugural event for the Smithsonian’s...

National Education Advocate Says Family Is Key to Learning

By Monique Chappell Special to the NNPA News Wire from The Charlotte Post Education always played a big part in Byron Garrett’s life. “Education has always...

Black College Fund, CIA Vow to Create More Agents of Color

By Janelle Berry Special to the NNPA News Wire from the HU News Service WASHINGTON—The Central Intelligence Agency and a national organization that financially helps students...

Students rally against swastika painted at Bowie State University

[WTOP] BOWIE, Md. — In the wake of an online threat against Howard University and its students, as well as ongoing racial tension at the University...

Black Churches Show Support for Obama’s Environment Plan

By Savannah Harris Special to the NNPA News Wire from HU News Service WASHINGTON – Leaders of the nation’s major Black churches — representing nearly 13...

Family of Five Die in Apparent Murder-Suicide

By Floyd Alvin Galloway Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Arizona Informant Tempe, Ariz., police are calling the death of five family members on...

TSDtv: U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan Announces Pell Grants for H.S. Students

TSDtv — US Education Secretary Arne Duncan Statement on Education and Race in America (10/30/2015)

On October 27, 2015, The U.S. Department of Justice & the FBI announced an investigation into how a South Carolina

Nissan, Toyota Latest to Respond to Diversity Scorecard

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Contributing Writer Nissan, Toyota and Hyundai are the latest automakers to respond to the recently released Rainbow PUSH Automotive Project, which...

Obama Says Black Lives Matter Movement Is Legit

By Courtne Dixon Special to the NNPA News Wire Service from HU News Service WASHINGTON – The Black Lives Matter movement, who many have embraced and...

Biden: I’m not running for president in 2016

(Yahoo) – Ending months of will-he-won’t-he speculation, Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he is not running for president in 2016, saying the process of...

Man, 22, charged in Texas Southern University shooting

HOUSTON — A 22-year-old Houston man has been charged with murder and aggravated assault in the shooting death of a Texas Southern University freshman and the...

One Student Dead, One Injured as Shooting at TSU Grabs National Attention

By Tyler Doggett and Jeffrey Boney Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Houston Forward Times On Friday, October 9, Texas Southern University (TSU), a...

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