by D. Kevin McNeir Special to the NNPA from The Miami Times In an educational environment where teachers are often compelled to prepare students for standardized...
[LAS VEGAS SUN] President Barack Obama will become the first U.S. leader in three decades to attack another nation without robust international support or in direct...
by Layla Garms Special to the NNPA from the Winston-Salem Chronicle Celebrity Chef Paula Deen lost her television show and millions of dollars in endorsements; Philadelphia...
[LOS ANGELES TIMES] When Berto Solis and Nancy Thuvanuti met, nobody thought they would last, he remembers. She was a New Jersey girl with Thai and...
By Wendell Hutson Special to the NNPA from the Chicago Crusader After initially saying its long-term plans were not to replace neighborhood schools with charter schools,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After repeatedly praising Dr. Martin Luther King., Jr., for leading a movement in the 1950s and...
[UPI] U.S. black Americans say more civil rights laws are needed to reduce discrimination against blacks in the wake of George Zimmerman‘s acquittal, a poll found. In...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The 50th Anniversary for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom celebrated a more diverse coalition...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When the Florida jury found George Zimmerman, a White neighborhood watchman, not guilty of second-degree murder in...
[LAS VEGAS SUN] NAACP President Ben Jealous says he plans to turn over petitions with more than 1.7 million signatures calling on the Department of Justice...
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...
