[AP] The White House says President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will travel to South Africa next week to pay respects to Nelson Mandela....
[AP] JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans erupted in song, dance and tears on Friday in public and emotional celebrations of the life of Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who bridged this country’s...
[CNN] Nelson Mandela’s willingness to forgive and forget helped peacefully end an era of white domination in his native South Africa. But as news of his...
Pros Go from Rags-to-Riches-Back-to-Rags By Everett L. Glenn NNPA Special Contributor SECOND OF A 3-PART SERIES (As a sports agent, Attorney Everett Glenn has negotiated contracts...
[Orlando Sentinel] George Zimmerman was acquitted at his racially charged murder trial in July. He won but at a very steep cost. Two months ago, he received...
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The woman who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape was convicted of second-degree murder Friday in the stabbing death...
Louisiana leads the nation Special to the NNPA from The Louisiana Weekly In an in-depth study of people serving life without parole for nonviolent offenses in...
CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — The Obama administration is delaying yet another aspect of the health care law, putting off until next...
[ABC News] Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Breaking News from ABC | Thanksgiving Recipes A Florida woman who claimed to be a victim of...
KEN RITTER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson faces at least four more years in prison after a judge rejected his bid for a...
[USA Today] Some news organizations are refuting the existence of an alleged phenomenon known as the “knockout game” that has been the subject of media warnings...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama’s health care law, whether businesses can...
By Everett L. Glenn NNPA Special Contributor FIRST OF A 3-PART SERIES (As a sports agent, Attorney Everett Glenn has negotiated contracts for some of the...
Joseph Paul Franklin’s Murder Victims Included Blacks, Jews and Interracial couples by Zachary Lester and Ron Taylor Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Joseph...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – During what he called one of his “favorite events every year,” President Obama presented 16 outstanding individuals,...
[USA Today] MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama’s parole board voted Thursday to grant posthumous pardons to men known as the Scottsboro Boys from a 1931 rape case. The Alabama Board...
[San Jose Mercury News] SAN JOSE — First, his white roommates nicknamed him “Three-fifths,” referring to the way the government once counted blacks as just a...
CHRIS BLANK, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Once one of the most active death penalty states in the U.S., Missouri carried out its first...
MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman is once again a free man after an arrest on criminal charges — but his freedom...
MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Deputies say George Zimmerman’s girlfriend accused him of pointing a shotgun at her during an argument at the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A new study suggests that access to “excellent teachers” should be a civil right and that students...
by Dorothy Rowley Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer The president of the D.C.-based Thurgood Marshall College Fund said recently that historically black colleges...
by Askia Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur (a.k.a. Joanne Chesimard) leaves Middlesex County courthouse after Superior...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Crews are installing two large artifacts inside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture while it’s still under construction on...
(Reuters) – U.S. college enrollment is declining. That may cause students and their parents to hope tuition costs will go down, but they should not count...
