(The Guardian) – Philadelphia police shot black people at about twice the rate of their occurrence in the general population, according to a new federal study....
WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — The F.B.I. has made great strides since the Sept. 11 attacks and has prevented other catastrophic acts of terrorism, but it urgently...
JULIE PACE, Associated Press KEN THOMAS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rather than keeping him at arm’s length, Hillary Rodham Clinton is embracing President Barack Obama...
by George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Barbara R. Arnwine does not back down from a fight. After the U.S. Supreme Court issued a...
KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Not surprisingly, the legalization of marijuana in Colorado has reduced pot arrests, but a newly released study says it...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. (The Washington Post) — Police here say they have found no evidence to support claims in a Rolling Stone article that a University...
LORI HINNANT, Associated Press CLAUDE PARIS, Associated Press SEYNE-LES-ALPES, France (AP) — A Germanwings jet carrying 150 people from Barcelona to Duesseldorf slammed into a remote...
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Allowing a white police officer to have a judge decide his fate for his role in a 137-bullet shooting...
(The Grio) – George Zimmerman is speaking out for the first time since the Department of Justice cleared him of civil rights violations. The message...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police officers initiated stop, question and frisk encounters at a much higher rate last summer than their New...
Michael Winter, USA TODAY (USA Today)—The 20-year-old black University of Virginia student bloodied by alcohol-control officers outside a bar last week was denied entry after a...
Carolyn Kellogg, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (The L.A. Times)—New Press will publish the U.S. Department of Justice’s “Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department” and bring...
Lilly Fowler, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FERGUSON, Mo. (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)—Ferguson is testing the civil rights legacy of famed televangelist Billy Graham. In a region still...
Corey Williams, ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT (AP) — For 24 years, a stone marker has stood along U.S. 80 in Alabama’s Lowndes County, near the spot...
Julie Walker, THE ROOT AUSTIN, Tx. (The Root)—The founders of #BlackLivesMatter are grateful that their message has been picked up by so many people as...
Stephen Deere and Walter Moskop, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FERGUSON, Mo. (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)—The cosmetic changes were easy spot. For starters, the judge wore...
Molly Hennessey-Fiske, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PORT GIBSON, Miss. (The L.A. Times)—They found the black man’s body hanging by a bedsheet from a locust tree....
(The Huffington Post) – At least six businesses in Austin, Texas, have been plastered with stickers reading “Exclusively For White People,” drawing condemnation from the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With no federal unemployment insurance and rapidly disappearing state coverage, the percentage of people benefiting from...
by Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As Eric Holder ended his tenure as U.S. Attorney General, he said, “The troubling reality is...
(New Pittsburgh Courier) – Family and friends of former D.C. Delegate and Civil Rights icon Walter Fauntroy have grown increasingly concerned following reports that a...
Special to the NNPA from Target Market News CHICAGO — Three national African-American organizations have issued a joint statement in response to the $20 billion lawsuit...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite high-profile concern over issues underscored by the racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, African Americans and Hispanics are...
FERGUSON, Mo. (The Huffington Post) — The revenue-reaping practices of the police department and municipal court in this St. Louis suburb were widely condemned this month and...
(ABC News) – The state is investigating whether excessive force was used during the arrest of a 20-year-old black University of Virginia student after he attempted...
