MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A video released Thursday shows a prolonged struggle between a naked, mentally ill inmate and five deputies in...
Black Florida gun enthusiasts tell the Florida Courier why they believe it’s necessary to stay ‘strapped.’ by Karsceal Turner Special to the NNPA from The Florida Courier...
(The Hill) – Of the many constants political forecasters accept heading into 2016, it’s that all voting blocs are monolithic and all potential Latino voters next...
(NBC News) – In a matter of seconds, a moment of quiet prayer turned into a massacre. “We were just about to say the prayer to...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The trials for six police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A city board approved on Wednesday a $6.4 million settlement with the family of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (USA Today) — Sharp differences exist between the way blacks and whites view the treatment of blacks by police, according to a poll being released Wednesday by...
(CNN) – Alex Stone knew he had no other choice. The police officer in Clatskanie, Oregon, filed a formal complaint when he allegedly heard the city’s...
Weekend of activities connects generations active in the struggle to protect Black lives by Ashahed M. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call CHICAGO...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times There were more than 1,200 new or amended laws and resolutions voted on...
(Observer.com) – The Observer has learned that Senator Cory Booker, who is under fire from Jewish supporters who had long treated him as one of their...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The family of Freddie Gray, who died after being critically injured in police custody, reached a tentative $6.4 million...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Brandyn Heppard usually arrives 30 minutes early for his visits to Northern State Prison in Newark, N.J....
(The Washington Post) – These days, defending Bill Cosby — accused of drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women — can be a dangerous endeavor. Those...
(NBC News) – Civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson’s mother, Helen Burns Jackson, died in a Greenville, South Carolina, hospital on Monday, according to Jackson and...
Sam Stebbins, Thomas C. Frohlich, Michael B. Sauter, and Evan Comen, 24/7 Wall St. via USA TODAY (USA Today) — Although drought conditions have...
Kimberly Freeman and Marc Bayard, NBC NEWS (NBC News) — From Black Lives Matter and Fight for $15 to North Carolina’s Forward Together Moral...
Clifford Ward, CHICAGO TRIBUNE UNIONTOWN, Ohio (Chicago Tribune) — A judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Ohio woman against a west suburban sperm...
Tina Sfondeles, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES CHICAGO (The Chicago Sun-Times) — The hunger strike continued Friday for a group protesting Dyett High School’s new destiny as...
Kate Brumback, ASSOCIATED PRESS GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Citing a sliver of civil rights-era legislation more commonly used as protection against discriminatory landlords, a...
(Think Progress) – More than two years after a class action lawsuit exposed the quota policy behind the NYPD’s rampant use of stop-and-frisk, new lawsuits filed...
(The Washington Post) – A grand jury has charged a white Portsmouth, Va., police officer with first degree murder in connection with the killing of...
MEG KINNARD, Associated Press JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The state prosecutor in charge of trying Dylann Roof in what authorities have said...
(The Atlantic) – No one will be surprised to learn that the campaign to build a national movement against gentrification is being waged out of an...
