Leeriness About Oath Keeper Promises to Help By Askia Muhammad and J.A. Salaam Special to the NNPA from The Final Call WASHINGTON – Into the toxic...
By Umar Lee Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American The funeral of Mansur Ball-Bey was a colorful, ecumenical and passionate affair. Mourners packed Christ...
MICHAEL TARM, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The killing of a veteran police officer north of Chicago is the latest in a string of recent law...
(The Washington Post) – Howard University students and alumni took their frustration public — and viral — Wednesday, with a gush of complaints on social media...
By Rhodesia Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call NEW ORLEANS – It’s been a decade since millions across the world witnessed the aftermath...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Truancy among Black students has far-ranging consequences, not just as a predictor for low academic achievement,...
BALTIMORE (ABC2News.com) – Two days have been set aside for each side in the Freddie Gray case to argue pretrial motions in front of Judge Barry...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The family of an unarmed black man shot to death by a white former police chief of a...
By Mariah Stewart Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American Walking into the church sanctuary, Natasha Kelly grabbed her eight-year-old’s hand. “You okay?” Kelly...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As Gulf Coast residents and policymakers celebrated the recovery of the Crescent City on the 10th...
MILWAUKEE (New York Times) — Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders after years of declines, and few places have witnessed a...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists, black and white, marched outside the Minnesota State Fair this weekend, hoping...
Kevin Rector, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — After months of sharply worded motions by prosecutors and defense attorneys, legal questions surrounding the...
Andy Cush, GAWKER FERGUSON, Mo. (Gawker) — The Oath Keepers in Ferguson just lost their highest-profile member. Sam Andrews, who led armed members of...
Justin Glave, THE DAILY BEAST LEE COUNTY, Miss. (The Daily Beast) — Rickey Thompson started a drug court to start treating offenders and stop imprisoning...
Maxwell Stratchan, THE HUFFINGTON POST (The Huffington Post) — In the moments before he took the stage at NBCUniversal’s “A Concert for Hurricane Relief” on Sept....
John Byrne and Juan Perez Jr., THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE CHICAGO (The Chicago Tribune) — Hunger strike protesters trying to save a high school ratcheted up the...
Jon Swaine, THE GUARDIAN PORTSMOUTH, Va. (The Guardian) — A young black man arrested by police in Portsmouth, Virginia has been found dead in jail...
FERGUSON, MO (KTVI) – An arrest has been made in connection with the fatal shooting of a 9-year-old in Ferguson. Ferguson police worked with St. Louis...
ROANOKE, Va. (New York Times) — For two years after losing yet another television job, Vester Lee Flanagan II lived in a nondescript apartment across the...
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Sixty years after a black Chicago teenager was killed for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi,...
(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) – Friends and fans of an student shot and killed at Savannah State University Thursday night took to social media Friday to mourn the...
