(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...
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,...
