By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Voting Rights Act is down, but not out and civil rights leaders joined President Obama and...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – With her voice laced with emotion, Sybrina Fulton, the soft-spoken mother of Trayvon Martin, urged delegates to...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, the part determining...
Dr. Ben Chavis Speaks About NNPA and Wilmington 10 Pardon
Cars and Bikes Share the Roads in China. (Photo by Ann Ragland/NNPA) by George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief (SECOND IN THE SERIES) BEIJING (NNPA) – When...
With 1.3 billion people in China, residents in urban areas live in high-rise apartments similar to this one in Beijing(Photo by Ann Ragland/NNPA). First grade students...
Researchers found that the risk of having a criminal conviction by early adulthood increased by approximately 30 percent with every hour that children spent viewing television...
[youtube id=”KelDQj_6P7Y” width=”620″ height=”360″] By Matt Pearce February 18, 2013, 5:42 p.m. Rough flight. A 60-year-old business executive accused of drunkenly slapping a 2-year-old and referring...
Former Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) will plead guilty to conspiring with his wife to illegally spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal expenses, including...
The day’s light was fading when the SWAT officers decided they could wait no longer for Christopher Dorner to surrender. Dorner, the fired Los Angeles cop...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – For the third year in a row, Missouri ranks as the state with the highest homicide victimization...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Rejecting calls for him to move closer toward his Republican critics, a confident President Barack H. Obama...
By Robin Givhan Washington Post Published: January 21 First lady Michelle Obama stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol during President Obama’s second-term swearing-in, holding...
By Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHIGTON (NNPA) – CNN has covered it. ABC News’ Nightline has done a feature on it. It has appeared in...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINTON (NNPA) – Despite efforts in some states to suppress the Black vote and predictions that African-Americans would not turn...
National Black Chamber of Commerce Opposes Law By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNAP) – After hearing oral arguments earlier on whether an affirmative action...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Companies that fail to advertise with Black media are missing an opportunity to effectively reach nearly 43...
