by Karsceal Turner Special to the NNPA from The Florida Courier Is self-defense biblical? Are Christians required to forgive, as in the case of the Charleston...
ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer Even after gunning down a TV news reporter and cameraman during a live interview, Vester Lee Flanagan II continued to rage....
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Amelia Boynton Robinson, who died Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala. at the age of 104, is being...
STEVE HELBER, Associated Press PAM RAMSEY, Associated Press JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press MONETA, Va. (AP) — A TV reporter and cameraman were shot to death during...
PHILLIP LUCAS, Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who nearly died while helping lead the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights...
NEW ORLEANS (New York Times) — It is a wonder that any of it is here at all: The scattered faithful gathering into Beulah Land Baptist...
NEW YORK (CBS Sports) — The photo of a young woman coated in dust and ash was one of the iconic images of September 11, 2001....
by Kenya Vaughn Special to the NNPA from The St. Louis American “Hey, how have you been,” said Cathy Daniels, affectionately known to Ferguson protesters as...
by Lisa Snowden-McCray Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American The weather was a steamy 82 degrees on August 16 around 5 p.m. when...
ATLANTA (USA Today) — Atlanta police are investigating controversial graffiti that was left on a side of a city building. In the graffiti, cartoon character Elmer Fudd is wearing a...
(The Washington Post) – If it had not been for a disagreement with my mother on that Friday night in August, perhaps my body would be...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In a wide-ranging conference call with the Black Press, the Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan...
by Kenya Vaughn Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American Kendric Henderson’s face cringed as she slowly limped on crutches to join the march...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On Tuesday [Aug.25], the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) opened the application process for the Apple...
Evan Sernoffsky, SAN FRANCISCO GATE NAPA VALLEY (San Francisco Gate) — What started as a joyous ride through wine county Saturday afternoon turned into a...
Sarah Wheaton, POLITICO EDGARTOWN, Mass. (Politico) – For America’s black elite, this year’s seasonal sojourn to Martha’s Vineyard turned into a soul-searching retreat. The shooting...
Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D., THE POYNTER INSTITUTE (The Poynter Institute) — When I opened the door to my office after a summer doing research and...
Brad Heath, USA TODAY BALTIMORE (USA Today) — The crime itself was ordinary: Someone smashed the back window of a parked car one evening and...
Tom Foreman, Jr., ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A juror who heard evidence in the trial of a white North Carolina police officer said...
Nigel Duara, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ST. LOUIS (The L.A. Times) — An 18-year-old black man died from a single gunshot wound to the back...
