By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (NNPA) – Rapidly-expanding technology, social media and new smart phone apps are no substitute for the hard work...
(USA Today) LOS ANGELES — O.J. Simpson was in the backseat. Al “A.C.” Cowlings was at the wheel. Yet as the celebrated pair led police on...
New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet had a malignant tumor removed from his kidney over the weekend, according to Politico. “I had minimally invasive, completely successful...
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MARK KENNEDY, AP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For Ruby Dee, acting and activism weren’t contradictory things. They were inseparable, and they were intertwined. The...
(CNN) — When former football star and actor O.J. Simpson was charged with the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, the...
(USA Today) – Everyone knows Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day. But why does it have such a bad reputation? One reason is that...
KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ruby Dee, an acclaimed actor and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio television and film,...
JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer The O.J. Simpson murder trial exposed many painful truths. None hit harder than the idea that white and black people often...
JOSH BOAK, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — City living has been a blessing for Tim Nelson. The Phoenix lawyer moved downtown a few months ago...
By Marlon Peterson Special to the NNPA PERSPECTIVE In 1999, when I was 19 years old, I was arrested and charged with first degree murder, several...
By Merdies Hayes Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly Pluria Marshall Jr. has purchased three FOX-affiliated television full-power stations – KLJB-TV in Davenport, Iowa; KMSS-TV...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As Rachel Jeantel inched toward a high school diploma, she tried to keep in mind that...
PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama, whose photograph famously appeared in Life magazine showing her cradling the head of...
STEVE SZKOTAK, Associated Press JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell got a firsthand look Thursday at the effect of climate change on ever-receding Jamestown...
CINCINNATI (USA Today) — Leslie McElrath Jr. was pulling up to his house Wednesday just before 6 p.m. when he heard gunshots. He rushed out of the...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A contractor has fired a cotton warehouse supervisor in Memphis, Tennessee, after two black employees accused him of saying that a microwave...
KEN RITTER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson’s lawyers resubmitted a Nevada Supreme Court appeal Wednesday seeking a new trial on grounds that the...
CHERYL K. CHUMLEY, The Washington Times WASHINGTON (The Washington Times)—Adm. Michael Rogers, chief of the National Security Agency, defended his agents’ use of facial recognition technology and...
(ABC News)—New video released by the Taliban reportedly shows Bowe Bergdahl during Saturday’s handover in Afghanistan. The Army sergeant who had been in captivity since 2009 was seen...
MARK HOLMBERG, CBS 6 WTRV-TV RICHMOND, Va. (CBS 6)— Ray Boone was a crusader for sure. You always knew where he stood on issues. It was...
ALAN FARNHAM, ABC News (ABC News)—Professional pallbearers will march, or even dance, caskets to the grave at some funeral homes. Some charge as much as...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The day before she died, Maya Angelou telephoned Ebony magazine headquarters in Chicago to tell new editor-in-chief Mitzi...
(HNGN) – An honor-roll Virginia student, accused of murdering his parents after they took away his iPod, pled guilty, Wednesday. He was charged as an...
