By Hollis Watkins Special to the Afro (The Afro)—Racism is still alive and well in Mississippi and throughout this country just as it was in the...
(Detroit Free-Press) – Law enforcement officials rescued 168 child victims of commercial sex trafficking in a nationwide sweep during the past week and arrested 281 alleged...
By Oscar Blayton Special to the NNPA PERSPECTIVE Beginning in 1945, as a Black male child, I spent my early years in a small southern...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call Editor’s note: This is part one of a three-part series on sexual slavery and Black...
LISA LEFF, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down a 31-year-old Los Angeles law that bars people from living...
SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of actors and athletes are joining a U.S. government effort to support girls’ education worldwide. Jennifer...
(The Washington Post) – He paid to get here. Paid with the skull-rattling pain of a metal trash can clattering down hard onto his head...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – More than 1,000 women of color – including Mary Frances Berry, former chair of the U.S. Commission...
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — Michigan authorities say a man tried to throw a football loaded with drugs and cellphones into the yard of a state...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A cache of new research from the Pew Center paints a picture of the modern American family—a picture...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (NNPA) – Rapidly-expanding technology, social media and new smart phone apps are no substitute for the hard work...
(USA Today) LOS ANGELES — O.J. Simpson was in the backseat. Al “A.C.” Cowlings was at the wheel. Yet as the celebrated pair led police on...
New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet had a malignant tumor removed from his kidney over the weekend, according to Politico. “I had minimally invasive, completely successful...
(Al-Jazeera) Below is a photo gallery of actress Ruby Dee throughout her career READ MORE
MARK KENNEDY, AP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For Ruby Dee, acting and activism weren’t contradictory things. They were inseparable, and they were intertwined. The...
(CNN) — When former football star and actor O.J. Simpson was charged with the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, the...
(USA Today) – Everyone knows Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day. But why does it have such a bad reputation? One reason is that...
KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ruby Dee, an acclaimed actor and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio television and film,...
JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer The O.J. Simpson murder trial exposed many painful truths. None hit harder than the idea that white and black people often...
JOSH BOAK, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — City living has been a blessing for Tim Nelson. The Phoenix lawyer moved downtown a few months ago...
By Marlon Peterson Special to the NNPA PERSPECTIVE In 1999, when I was 19 years old, I was arrested and charged with first degree murder, several...
By Merdies Hayes Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly Pluria Marshall Jr. has purchased three FOX-affiliated television full-power stations – KLJB-TV in Davenport, Iowa; KMSS-TV...
