(Alternative Media Syndicate) – Police and city officials have just released the dashcam video showing the traffic stop harassment, just moments before Officer Michael Slager fatally...
(Raw Story) – The shocking footage of South Carolina man Walter Scott being shot in the back as he ran from North Charleston police officer Michael Slager...
(NBC News) – A Minnesota teen has achieved the rare and prestigious honor of being accepted to all eight Ivy League schools. Munira Khalif, a senior...
By Barney Blakeney Special to the NNPA from The Charleston Chronicle CHARLESTON, S.C. – North Charleston Branch NAACP President Ed Bryant said Thursday the April 4...
Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News “When an old person dies, a library burns” … so goes the African proverb. March...
NNPA Rededicates Media Lab at HU’s School of Communications by Sarafina Wright Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer The National Newspaper Publishers Association rededicated...
by Barney Blakeney Special to the NNPA from The Charleston Chronicle CHARLESTON, S.C. – Leaders of local civil rights organizations had been taking a wait-and-see approach...
EXCLUSIVE: Witness who recorded the deadly police shooting of #WalterScott speaks out. @LesterHoltNBC reports: https://t.co/wzf03DIghR — NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) April 8, 2015 (The Washington Post)...
MITCH WEISS, Associated Press MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The white South Carolina police officer charged with murder for shooting an unarmed...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The law gives police officers latitude to use deadly force when they feel physically endangered, but there’s far less...
by Khari Arnold Special to NNPA from Howard University News Service WASHINGTON – Kappa Alpha Psi, one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious black fraternities, is facing...
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dramatic video that shows a white South Carolina police officer shooting a fleeing...
FANNIN COUNTY, Ga. (MyFoxAtlanta.com) – A Fannin County Judge and two others are accused of using racial slurs in open court. A source tells FOX 5,...
(The Washington Post) – E. Ethelbert Miller, a noted poet and longtime director of the Afro-American Studies Resource Center at Howard University, believes he was...
by Terry Shropshire Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Daily World Many urbanites probably wonder why instances of police brutality and lethal force keep being...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Prisoners’ advocate groups hope President Barack Obama’s decision to grant clemency to nearly two dozen,...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Clemson University put the school’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on probation for two years after the group held...
(NBC News) – Vijay Chokal-Ingam, the brother of writer and actress Mindy Kaling, has sparked controversy with his new book, in which he claims to have been...
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...
