NEW YORK (CNN)—High school senior Harold Ekeh didn’t just get into one Ivy League university. He was accepted into all eight. Now comes the really...
Margalit Fox, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK (The New York Times)—Phyllis R. Klotman, a film scholar who helped unearth lost treasures of African-American cinema and...
Carl Gibson, THINK PROGRESS BALTIMORE, Md. (ThinkProgress.com)—Starting this week, 25,000 households in Baltimore will suddenly lose their access to water for owing bills of $250...
Jesse J. Holland, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Whites in the United States approve of police officers hitting people in far greater numbers than...
Wesley Lowery and Kimberyly Kindy, THE WASHINGTON POST FERGUSON, Mo. (The Washington Post)—City officials in Ferguson, Mo., on Thursday evening released the full,...
Deneen L. Brown, THE WASHINGTON POST SUGARLAND, Md. (THE WASHINGTON POST)—The old people used to say that Sugarland, Maryland, one of the hundreds of...
Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer Federal authorities announced Friday that a man has been charged with civil rights crimes for placing a noose...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Kayla Tarrant loves the University of Maryland. But the campus tour guide...
JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The swift discovery of the person who hung a noose at Duke University leaves questions ranging from the...
The Associated Press Recent racially tinged incidents on college campuses: —Duke University officials say a student hung a noose in a plaza of the North Carolina...
(CBS News) – Disturbing photos of a teen beaten at a Georgia prison — apparently captured on an inmate’s cellphone — made it onto Facebook before...
KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A group of former Atlanta educators convicted in a test cheating scandal were locked up in Fulton County jails...
CHICAGO (USA Today) — After recording the fewest number of murders in decades last year, violence is soaring: a 40% increase in shootings and 29%...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If the Black residents of Ferguson, Mo., want to radically reform the political climate that...
EMERY P. DALESIO, Associated Press MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke University officials are trying to determine who hung a rope noose from...
(Reuters) – A judge on Wednesday entered a not guilty plea for a man charged with drug possession who was dragged from his car, struck...
(USA Today) – A noose was discovered hanging on a tree outside Duke University’s student center early Wednesday morning. The noose has since been removed, but...
(New York Times) – Suppose you accept the persuasive data that inequality has been rising in the United States and most advanced nations in recent decades....
by Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Jordan Shanks, a sophomore English major at Howard University admitted that before Black Press Week, he didn’t...
Michael Brown, Sr., right, and activist Anthony Shahid lead a protest in Clayton, Mo., the seat of government for St. Louis County. (J.A. Salaam/The Final Call)...
by Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. will begin a stay in a halfway house...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A few years ago, violence on Chicago streets thrust a recently elected mayor into the national spotlight as shootouts...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Benjamin Crump, the lawyer who skyrocketed to national prominence by representing the family of Trayvon...
PHOENIX (USA Today) — An Arizona State University course called “U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness” has gained national attention and landed the...
Jennifer Mann, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)—At a pro-police rally Saturday, a St. Louis police union representative called Department of Justice investigators “a...
