MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Shirley Sherrod, the former Agriculture Department official whose supposed racist remarks on video ignited a firestorm in 2010,...
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amid all the bombast in the Republican race for president, Ben Carson comes across more like a whisper. He...
(The Washington Post) – Republican candidates ahead of their second debate are flummoxed about how to deal with the perpetual insult machine that is Donald Trump: Most ignore...
By Afrique I. Kilimanjaro Special to the NNPA from Carolina Peacemaker RALEIGH, N.C. (NNPA) – America’s Journey for Justice, an 860-mile walk led by the NAACP,...
(Talking Points Memo) – Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) quoted from the Bible and told students that America was founded on “racist principles” during...
(Politico) – Ben Carson’s steady rise in the polls continued Tuesday, with the retired neurosurgeon running nearly even with Donald Trump in the latest CBS News/New York...
(Salon) – In a move sure to catapult him to the top of Bill O’Reilly’s most favored list, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson blasted Black Lives Matter...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the 2016 election cycle ramps up, Essence magazine and the Black Women’s Roundtable have teamed up to mobilize...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The explosion of “dark money” spent in the political system in the United States threatens racial...
Dan Balz and Scott Clement, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — Two non-politicians, businessman Donald Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, dominate...
Edward-Isaac Dovere, POLITICO WASHINGTON (Politico) — Continuing his pre-presidential campaign, Vice President Joe Biden will head to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation convention in Washington...
David Weigel, THE WASHINGTON POST ST. LOUIS (The Washington Post) — Joined by Ferguson, Missouri’s mayor, Ben Carson spent Friday morning in the place where America’s...
Sophia Tesfaye, SALON WASHINGTON (Salon) — In an effort to court African-American support for his presidential campaign, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders held a meeting...
EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Seattle man was arrested in January during a demonstration to protest police violence. Though he has yet to...
(Politicus USA) – President Obama rubbed a little salt in the Republican wound with a statement offered an unspoken reminder that Democrats stood together and won...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Friday that she will not seek re-election next year, nearly five months after the...
(BuzzFeed) – While defending Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis’s refusal to issue marriage licenses out of her religious opposition to same-sex marriage, Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that...
(The Washington Post) – Rowan County, Ky., clerk Kim Davis may have a dream about honoring her religion by refusing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but she is...
(Salon) – One of the more enduring tropes on the religious right is this notion that America is a Christian nation, or at the very least...
(Politico) – Donald Trump fired back at GOP rival Ben Carson on Thursday, blasting him for questioning his religious faith and remarking that the retired neurosurgeon was “perhaps...
MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Attorneys for the state of Texas have asked a judge to dismiss a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the mother...
(Talking Points Memo) – A newly surfaced report from a 1927 edition of the New York Times suggests Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s late father may...
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has approved a request from Jesse Jackson Jr. for a four-day furlough from home detention in Washington to attend his...
JANIE HAR, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson jabbed Tuesday at front-runner Donald Trump’s proposal to deport everyone who is in...
(The Washington Post) – In America, you can’t legally bet on political outcomes (at least not yet). But if you could, we’d advise you to put some...
