by Roberto Alejandro Special to the NNPA from The Afro-American Newspaper A Black family taking pictures of their son – who has Down’s syndrome –...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Just before Labor Day 2005, the world was stunned as images of Gulf Coast citizens, trudged through chaos...
by Nayaba Arinde Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News “It is all overwhelming and bitter sweet,” Yusef Salaam told the Amsterdam...
by Charlene Muhammad and Walter Umrani Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call NEW ORLEANS – The family of a 22-year-old Black man,...
(Los Angeles Times) – A proposal for greater citizen oversight of the Ferguson Police Department has been criticized as “weak” and “insulting” by police experts...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As middle-aged parents, Norma Richards, a veteran science teacher, and her husband were only halfway through...
TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California Highway Patrol officer videotaped repeatedly punching a woman on the side of a Los Angeles freeway...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — Command of the Army’s main combat units — its pipeline to top leadership — is virtually devoid of black officers, according...
(USA Today) – In South Carolina, a 32-year-old father faces murder charges after he led police to the bodies of his five children, ages 1...
(New York Daily News) – Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said it’s “an irrefutable fact” that blacks and Hispanics are most disproportionately hit with summonses in predominately...
(USA Today) – Newly discovered witnesses to the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of Missouri teen Michael Brown are corroborating other witnesses’ comments that Brown was...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Elected leaders in the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black 18-year-old was fatally shot by a...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Last year, in an effort to improve accountability and return-on-investment in higher education, President Obama unveiled...
(Time) – After a video was released showing Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée, now-wife Janay Palmer so hard that he knocked her...
BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of items from civil rights icon Rosa Parks that were long kept hidden away in a New York...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Whites often overestimate the amount of crime committed by Blacks and “associate blacks and Latinos...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In an effort to combat police brutality in the Black community, the National Bar Association...
(Politico) – Civil rights leaders and community activists cheered when Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced on Thursday that the Justice Department would be investigating...
MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The richest 10 percent of Americans were the only group whose median incomes rose in the past three...
By Irma McClaurin Special to the NNPA from Insight News PERSPECTIVE They are not insurgents. They are not enemy combatants. They are not hostile enemy forces....
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department plans to open a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri. Police...
MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — After walking out of prison for the first time in three decades, former death row inmate Henry McCollum...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — The 18-year-old fatally shot by a suburban St. Louis police officer didn’t face any juvenile charges at...
ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit man was sentenced Wednesday to at least 17 years in prison for killing an unarmed woman...
LUMBERTON, N.C. (New York Times) — Thirty years after their convictions in the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in rural North Carolina, based on...
