By Freddie Allen Senior NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite relative improvement in job growth from 2013 to 2014, Black women continue to struggle in...
(Slate) – Early in the morning on Jan. 3, 1984, Janet Burke, a 20-year-old white woman, was opening the day care center where she worked at...
(The Washington Post) – It’s fair to say that both Ta-Nehisi Coates and Lin-Manuel Miranda were already having a pretty impressive 2015. Coates, a journalist lauded...
(Slate) – Washington state’s education system has made national news several times in the past few months, mostly for not-awesome reasons: First, a court ordered the...
By Jerry Ford II Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Hundreds packed the Washington Convention Center as an early crowd witnessed the “Black...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black women were murdered at more than double the rate of White women in 2012 and almost...
Jason Silverstein, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (The New York Daily News) – Perpetual lunatic George Zimmerman retweeted an image over the weekend showing the...
Matt Ferner, THE HUFFINGTON POST WILMINGTON, Del. (The Huffington Post) – A graphic cell phone video purportedly shows police in Wilmington, Delaware, fatally shooting a...
(News Max) – A brawl that erupted at a suburban Tampa Publix supermarket when a customer used a racial slur while ordering chicken wings was caught...
WALLER COUNTY, TEXAS (The Huffington Post) – On July 13, Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, was found dead in her jail cell in Waller County,...
TALLAHASSEE (Miami Herald) – Most out-of-work Floridians will never see a jobless benefits check from the state. In fact, a report this week from the National Employment...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing before a rapt Congress, Pope Francis issued a ringing call to action on behalf...
(Los Angeles Times) – Lola Fajinmi and Precious Nwaoha were both A students in high school. But once they got to USC, the African American women...
(Time) – When I started playing basketball as a freshman at UCLA, coach John Wooden told us a bunch of crazy ideas about useless drills we...
(NBC News) – A growing movement against the jailing of poor offenders who cannot pay fines has hit New Hampshire, where the local American Civil Liberties...
CLAUDIA LAUER, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Though only a short stretch of Little Rock’s Confederate Boulevard remains, to some it is a glaring...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – At the end of July, a man named Middle Passage boarded a bus from his home in...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call LOS ANGELES (The Final Call) – Many different groups and organizations are rallying and making preparations...
KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press SELMA, Ala. (AP) — The Sunday service at Oasis Tabernacle Church had started like any other: A prayer was recited over the...
(New York Times) – For as long as I can remember, certain relatives of mine were always dismayed and often enraged by the daily headlines and...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – At a reception during the 45th Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) Annual Legislative Conference, the National Newspaper...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times “…The justice that we seek will not come from these courts, it will...
(The Washington Post) – After the University of Missouri’s student-body president heard people yelling a racial slur at him from the back of a pickup truck,...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – This Friday, more than 400 Black role models will visit students at schools in 67 cities across...
