NEW YORK (CBS News) — Leaders of protests against police tactics in dealing with African-Americans say they plan to defy calls from New York Mayor Bill...
Todd Richmond, ASSOCIATED PRESS MILWAUKEE (AP) — A white Milwaukee police officer who was fired after he fatally shot a black man in a downtown...
Aaron Blake, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—A significant majority of Americans think race relations in the United States are bad, and race issues appear as...
Jan Ransom and Bill Hutchinson, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS BLADENBORO, N.C. (New York Daily News)—The mysterious hanging of a black North Carolina teen took new...
Christopher Webber, ASSOCIATED PRESS VENTURA, Calif. (AP) — Lowell Steward, a former member of the Tuskegee Airmen who flew well over 100 missions over Europe during...
Dave Boyer, THE WASHINGTON TIMES WASHINGTON (The Washington Times)—Before flying off to Hawaii for a two-week vacation, President Obama said Friday that most blacks understand...
Adam Ferrise, The Plain Dealer via CLEVELAND.COM CLEVELAND, Ohio (Cleveland.com)—Dozens of people are gathering outside the Cudell Recreation Center to protest the police shooting of...
BUENOS AIRES (New York Times) — President Obama has been lambasted for spying in Brazil, accused of being a warmonger by Bolivia, dismissed as a “lost opportunity” by...
(St. Louis Public Radio) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, along with its national voting rights division, has sued the Ferguson-Florissant School District...
ST. LOUIS, MO (VOA News) – If you think America is all about black and white, think again. A new study of more than 160,000...
(The Guardian) – New Jersey officials hope the thaw in diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba will make it easier to extradite a former Black Panther...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — More than 70 years after South Carolina sent a 14-year-old black boy to the electric chair in...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — President Obama on Wednesday ordered the restoration of full diplomatic relations with Cuba and the opening of an embassy in...
By Malcolm Marshall Special to the NNPA from New American Media Editor’s Note: In Richmond, Calif., a city long equated with high rates of crime and...
KATHY MATHESON, Associated Press SEAN CARLIN, Associated Press PENNSBURG, Pa. (AP) — An Iraq War veteran suspected of killing his ex-wife and five of her relatives...
SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The discovery that a Cleveland officer who shot and killed a 12-year-old boy last month had washed out at another...
(The Root) – One of the key witnesses in Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson’s grand jury case has a history of making racist statements, as...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In an effort to provide sufficient educational opportunities for incarcerated youth, the Department of Justice and...
KATHY MATHESON, Associated Press SEAN CARLIN, Associated Press PENNSBURG, Pa. (AP) — An Iraq War veteran suspected of killing his ex-wife and five of her relatives...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In an oval office meeting that some have called “historic,” a group of young activists met...
(WSOC) – Bill Cosby has been mostly silent about the sexual assault allegations against him over the past few months, but the embattled comedian’s wife is speaking...
MATT STROUD, Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Three friends of an alleged victim of gang rape at a University of Virginia frat house say a...
SYDNEY, Australia (New York Times) — Heavily armed police officers ended a hostage siege in Sydney early Tuesday, storming a downtown cafe where an armed man...
New Lawsuit Could Hamper Actor’s Plan to Break Silence by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer A woman claiming she was...
BERKELEY, California (AP) — Effigies of black lynching victims found hanging at the University of California, Berkeley have sparked debate over whether the images are powerful...
