Ex-TV Judge Joe Brown Arrested in Tennessee

ABC US News | ABC Business News MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The star of the television show “Judge Joe Brown” has been arrested and charged with...

Possible Debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Spotted

[CBS News] “This is a lead, it’s probably the best lead we have right now,” Young said. He cautioned that the objects could be seaborne debris...

Death of NYC Inmate in Overheated Cell Probed

JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators are probing how a mentally ill, homeless New York City veteran died last month in a jail...

Midshipman in Naval Academy Sex Case Not Guilty

JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A military judge found a former U.S. Naval Academy football player not guilty of a sexual assault charge Friday...

Part 1: Prevent and Treat Diabetes with a Plant Based Diet

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Bias a Factor in Suspending Black Students

By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A new collection of research shows that despite the myths surrounding Black student behavior, poverty and severity...

Parents of Slain Black Teenagers in Chicago and Jacksonville, Fla. to be Honored by Black Press in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – (NNPA) Cleopatra and Nathaniel A. Pendleton, Sr., parents of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendelton, who was fatally shot in the back while standing in a...

Tracing Family’s Roots Gives a ‘Broader Sense of Self’

By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – For African Americans, the quest to trace one’s origins is fraught with mystery and dead-ends. But with time...

New Studies Shatter Myths about Black Cohabitation and Marriage

By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Decades of research and the warnings of Black mothers everywhere are being challenged by an emerging body of...

Capitol Heights Welcomes Global Vision Community Health Center

Here’s How We Know MH370 Kept Flying for Hours

[The Washington Post] As the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continues, attention is turning to the onboard technology that allowed the plane itself, rather than...

New Rules for For-Profit Schools

[Time] Loan payments for some 8,000 programs, designed to propel students straight into careers but often landing them in worse debt than high school dropouts, will...

Officials: All 8 Missing in NYC Blast Recovered

  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s fire commissioner says all eight people reported missing have been found and identified at the site of a...

Pa. Jury Begins Hearing About Black Man’s Beating

JOE MANDAK, Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Three white plainclothes police officers concocted a story about mistaking a soda bottle for a weapon as an excuse...

Honor Student Who Sued Parents Returns Home

SAMANTHA HENRY, Associated Press ROSELAND, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey honor student who sued to get her parents to support her after she moved out...

SAT Officials Hope to Score High in Eliminating Racial Bias

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Administrators of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) have announced with great fanfare that they overhauling the standardized...

Black More Likely to Bully and Be Bullied than Other Groups

By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Blacks, who are already more likely than other racial groups to be involved in situations that involve bullying, both...

Former NAACP Head Joins Tech Venture Capital Firm

MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer SAN JOSE, California (AP) — Just months after stepping down as head of the largest U.S. civil rights organization, former NAACP...

Ex-Black Panther Freed 4 Decades After Cop Killing

BALTIMORE (AP) — A former leader of the Black Panthers has been released from prison more than four decades after being convicted of killing a Baltimore...

NY Times Prints Northup Correction 161 Years Later

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times has printed a correction for misspelling 161 years ago the name of a black man who was sold...

Marissa Alexander’s Sentence Could Triple in ‘Warning-Shot’ Case

[Florida Times-Union] A Jacksonville woman whose case generated outrage when she was sentenced to 20 years in prison may end up behind bars for 60 years...

Black and Brown Inmates Herded into Private Prisons

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although private schools are often lauded for providing a better education to students, the same can’t be...