By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As Rachel Jeantel inched toward a high school diploma, she tried to keep in mind that...
PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama, whose photograph famously appeared in Life magazine showing her cradling the head of...
STEVE SZKOTAK, Associated Press JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell got a firsthand look Thursday at the effect of climate change on ever-receding Jamestown...
CINCINNATI (USA Today) — Leslie McElrath Jr. was pulling up to his house Wednesday just before 6 p.m. when he heard gunshots. He rushed out of the...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A contractor has fired a cotton warehouse supervisor in Memphis, Tennessee, after two black employees accused him of saying that a microwave...
KEN RITTER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson’s lawyers resubmitted a Nevada Supreme Court appeal Wednesday seeking a new trial on grounds that the...
CHERYL K. CHUMLEY, The Washington Times WASHINGTON (The Washington Times)—Adm. Michael Rogers, chief of the National Security Agency, defended his agents’ use of facial recognition technology and...
(ABC News)—New video released by the Taliban reportedly shows Bowe Bergdahl during Saturday’s handover in Afghanistan. The Army sergeant who had been in captivity since 2009 was seen...
MARK HOLMBERG, CBS 6 WTRV-TV RICHMOND, Va. (CBS 6)— Ray Boone was a crusader for sure. You always knew where he stood on issues. It was...
ALAN FARNHAM, ABC News (ABC News)—Professional pallbearers will march, or even dance, caskets to the grave at some funeral homes. Some charge as much as...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The day before she died, Maya Angelou telephoned Ebony magazine headquarters in Chicago to tell new editor-in-chief Mitzi...
(HNGN) – An honor-roll Virginia student, accused of murdering his parents after they took away his iPod, pled guilty, Wednesday. He was charged as an...
(The Week) – On Thursday, Time revealed the cover for its June 9 issue, featuring transgender actress Laverne Cox. Cox, who stars in Orange Is the New Black, symbolizes...
New Orleans’s Recovery School District will close all of its remaining traditional public schools, according to the Washington Post. Education was one of the major reforms...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Six decades after Brown v. Board of Education, an old idea is being resurrected in hopes of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – More than 60 percent of Black students could receive greater financial aid for college through the Pell...
Boy killed while defending his sister from sexual assault by Joey Matthews Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Eight-year-old Martin Cobb and his...
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A 16-year-old who believed he was being ripped off shot and killed a northeastern Pennsylvania cab driver who refused to take...
NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou will not attend the 2014 MLB Beacon Awards Luncheon, where she will be honored. Major League Baseball cited “health...
(New York Times) – Vincent Harding, a historian, author and activist who wrote one of the most polarizing speeches ever given by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — When they pull up to a gas station these days, Detroit drivers are looking beyond the price per gallon...
ERIK SCHELZIG, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As the rest of the nation debates the feasibility and humanity of lethal injections against a backdrop of...
(NPR) – NPR announced Tuesday that it would cease broadcast of the weekday program Tell Me More on Aug. 1 and eliminate 28 positions as part of...
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. (WSB TV) — A student says fallout over her quote in the yearbook is threatening to ruin her senior year. Paris Gray...
(Los Angeles Times) – Donald Sterling made several attempts to deflect responsibility for his rant against African Americans — even asking his companion V. Stiviano to...
