By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – During the recession, states’ education expenditures—like everything else—took a substantial hit. But a new report from...
Injuries Joseph Roberts sustained from HPD officers rolling over his body with a police car by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Black unemployment rate fell to 11.6 percent in April, the lowest mark since President Barack...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. teachers are nowhere near as diverse as their students. Almost half the students attending public schools are...
[News OK] Prison officers shocked an uncooperative Clayton Lockett with a Taser and found a self-inflicted cut on his arm in the hours before he was...
JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP has resigned following outrage over a decision he...
ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 600 suspected gang members have been arrested in the Homeland Security Department’s largest crackdown on street...
By Zenobia Jeffries Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen Leon Jenkins, the Los Angeles branch NAACP president who awarded LA Clippers basketball team owner...
[Los Angeles Times] The head of the Los Angeles Chapter of the NAACP is coming under scrutiny in the wake of the organization’s decision to give...
FRANK ELTMAN, Associated Press MASTIC BEACH, N.Y. (AP) — Kwasi Enin is taking his brains to Yale. In a move usually reserved for highly-recruited athletes, a...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – March 1 was the last time eight year-old Relisha Rudd was seen, leaving a local hotel...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — V. Stiviano, the woman whom Donald Sterling was talking to when he made racist remarks, is “very saddened” by his lifetime...
JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer Donald Sterling is being exiled for racist views shared in private. America cherishes its freedom of thought and speech. But Sterling’s...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A 14-year-old Chicago girl accused of killing another girl in a dispute over a boy tried unsuccessfully to fire...
BAILEY ELISE McBRIDE, Associated Press SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A botched execution using a disputed new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was sternly denounced for racist comments by a spectrum of...
DETROIT (AP) — A young Detroit man who confessed to killing four people when he was 14 can’t withdraw his guilty plea, the Michigan Supreme...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. public high schools have reached a milestone, an 80 percent graduation rate. Yet that still means 1...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A revised plan for major tobacco companies to purchase court-ordered ads to admit that they deliberately...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Supreme Court cases about police searches of cellphones without warrants present vastly different views of the ubiquitous device....
[The Washington Post] Judges at the lowest levels of the federal judiciary are balking at sweeping requests by law enforcement officials for cellphone and other sensitive...
MICHELLE RINDELS, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada rancher who became a conservative folk hero for standing up to the government in a...
MICHELLE RINDELS, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada rancher who has become a conservative folk hero for resisting the federal government’s attempts to round...
[New York Times] The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction. While the wealthiest Americans are outpacing many of...
[ABC News] Want to try a cronut, but don’t want to wait in line for one? This man will do the waiting for you. While some...
