ERICA WERNER, Associated Press ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Outlines of a possible compromise that would more quickly deport minors arriving from Central...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful government workers’ union will end its support for the United Negro College Fund after the...
(Politico) – The evidence is piling up now: Obamacare really does seem to be helping the uninsured. Survey after survey is showing that the number...
by Marsha Rose Joyner Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Freedom Summer 1964: It seems that all of my life I have been infected...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite the cry from people of color for more teachers who look like them, both Whites and...
Gina Damron, DETROIT FREE PRESS Special to USA TODAY DETROIT (USA Today) — Twice a day, every day, Charlie Bothuell V told authorities, he had to...
by Michael McGee Special to the NNPA from The Dallas Examiner “The most disadvantaged, troubled students in the South and the nation attend schools in...
TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The head of the California Highway Patrol said he was shocked and the agency’s reputation is hurt by...
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — Washington and Lee University says it is removing Confederate battle flags from its campus. The move was announced in a lengthy...
by Saaed Shabazz Special to the NNPA from The Final Call The deaths of Chokwe Lumumba, Amiri Baraka, Jitu Weusi and most recently, Elombe Brath raises...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Low-income students have inadvertently presented themselves as millionaires on an application for federal financial student aid — making...
by James Wright Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer The Navy made history Tuesday when it promoted Michelle Howard, an African-American, to be its...
ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It seems to matter less whether your alma mater is public or private than what you study — math...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Black unemployment rate hit a six-year low in June, dipping below 11 percent for the...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An imprisoned former Chicago police commander accused of overseeing the torture of dozens of men — almost all of...
RUSSELL CONTRERAS, Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A veteran who collapsed in an Albuquerque Veteran Affairs hospital cafeteria — 500 yards from the emergency room...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy has its first female four-star admiral. She is Michelle Janine Howard, promoted on Tuesday to the service’s highest rank. The...
By Stan Washington Special to the NNPA from The Atlanta Voice On the top floor is the section focusing on the struggle for human rights across...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Over the course of a 32-year teaching career, Jacqueline James noticed a glaring problem—Black history was...
Julie Pace, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to turn around a troubled agency, President Barack Obama will nominate former Procter & Gamble executive Robert...
By Marsha Rose Joyner Special to the NNPA from The Afro (The Afro)—“History does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PORTLAND, Oregon (NNPA) – The St. Louis American has won the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s Russwurm/Senstacke Trophy for general excellence for the...
PORTLAND, OREGON – (NNPA) – Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. a global business leader, educator, and longtime civil rights activist, was elected interim president and CEO of...
Tony Perry, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES Maura Dolan, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES WASHINGTON (Los Angeles Times)—When David Riley, a 19-year-old member of San Diego’s Lincoln...
Paul Overberg, USA TODAY (USA Today)—Slowing Hispanic immigration and birth rates are shifting the USA’s growth toward Asians, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. For the second...
