Ben Kesling and Cameron McWhirter, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (The Wall Street Journal) — The percentage of African-Americans in U.S. police departments has remained flat...
Koran Addo, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns invoked the Black Lives Matter slogan in Washington University’s...
Gal Tziperman Lotan, THE ORLANDO SENTINEL (Orlando Sentinel) — The Winter Springs man accused of shooting at George Zimmerman in Lake Mary earlier this week...
By Christina Coleman Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender (NNPA) — The conversation surrounding police brutality in Black communities often excludes women...
Brian Melley, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — The case of the vanishing inmate at the Los Angeles County jail nearly went all the way...
Paul Elias, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Just the original charges were shocking: Six San Francisco police officers were accused of stealing from drug dealers. Then...
Colin Campbell, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — Two Baltimore correctional officers were charged Wednesday with looting a downtown convenience store during unrest last...
John-John Williams IV, MSN BALTIMORE (MSN) — Three weeks ago, Toya Graham was a recently unemployed single mother of six and grandmother of one...
Peter Jacobs, BUSINESS INSIDER (Business Insider) — High-school senior Ronald Nelson had an incredibly hard decision to make this year about college — mainly because...
Todd Richmond, ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When a white police officer killed an unarmed biracial teen in Wisconsin’s capital city, the shooting quickly...
Jamelle Bouie, SLATE (Slate) — In 1934, Homer Hoyt wrote a dissertation—“One Hundred Years of Land Values in Chicago: The Relationship of the Growth of Chicago...
Sergei F. Kovaleski and Michael Wines, THE NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — Less than two weeks after six police officers were...
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (USA Today) — The small Atlanta-area private school director who gained national attention for a racially charged comment she made during a...
MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman had moved away from Florida, but is now sticking around as police investigate his role in...
TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Some of the Madison Police Department’s toughest critics peacefully protested in the hours after a prosecutor said he...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A little help may be on the way for historically Black colleges and universities struggling against falling...
PHILIP MARCELO, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — An incoming Boston University professor who called “white college males” a “problem population” and was publicly criticized by the...
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JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Darkness is falling on another long, depressing night in one of America’s most marginal neighborhoods. For the 200...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Black unemployment rate fell to single digits (9.6 percent) in April, for the first time...
(Daily Kos) – We’ve been told, quite frequently and repeatedly that the problems in the black community that we’ve seen in Ferguson and Baltimore recently...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The record high American graduation rate masks large gaps among low income students and those with disabilities compared...
JAY REEVES, Associated Press JEFF AMY, Associated Press HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Marvin Banks’ drug use and drinking had worsened in recent years and he was...
