(Counter Punch) – Before you think this article is “just one liberal’s opinion,” let me briefly say I have dedicated my life to studying racism. I...
(National Journal) – As of the final days of August, the United States has seen more than 200 mass shootings in 2015. The murder of WDBJ...
(New York Amsterdam News) – Multiple reports indicated that once President Barack Obama ends his term as Commander-in-Chief, going to take a position at Columbia University....
(CNN) – Watch out Donald Trump. Here comes Ben Carson. While the bombastic real estate tycoon dominates much of the GOP field, the retired pediatric neurosurgeon...
Aaron Blake, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — The big takeaway from this new poll of the Iowa GOP caucuses — from Monmouth University...
Christine Armario, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Results for some of the states that participated in Common Core-aligned testing for the first time...
S.A. Miller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (The Washington Times) — The anger over Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz imposing strict controls and limits...
Lisa Lerer and Julie Bykowicz, ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The only trace of the vice president came on a candy wrapper. Joe Biden...
CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former President George W. Bush returned Friday to New Orleans, where he was vilified for his administration’s lackluster...
JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A judge on Thursday cleared the way for the University of Texas to move a statue of Confederate...
New Orleans (CNN) – President Barack Obama returned Thursday to an outwardly thriving New Orleans to mark strides 10 years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Justice Clarence Thomas has not asked a question from the Supreme Court bench since 2006. His majority opinions tend to be brisk, efficient and dutiful. Now,...
(Christian Science Monitor) – The US Marine Corps’ first African-American aviator, who broke multiple color barriers on his way to becoming the military branch’s first African-American...
KEN DILANIAN, AP Intelligence Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — During the 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, State Department officials in Washington were emailing one...
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says New Orleans is “moving forward” a decade after Hurricane Katrina dealt it a devastating blow,...
(Salon) – George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin who was last seen hawking paintings of the Confederate battle flag that praised the Second Amendment, took to...
LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump took heat when he spoke about “anchor babies” and seemed to relish the...
KERSTIN SOPKE, Associated Press FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press HEIDENAU, Germany (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel was met with jeers Wednesday as she traveled to a German...
JEFF AMY, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state of Mississippi from using two drugs in executions, shutting...
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — Louis Stokes rose from an impoverished life in the projects of Cleveland to become one of the most influential...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After the Florida Republican-dominated state legislature failed to redraw Rep. Corrine Brown’s congressional district and seven others...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is the man in the middle, caught between the White House aspirations of two...
Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Louis Stokes, Ohio’s first elected black congressman and a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, died late...
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Almost 10 years ago, the world watched as the waters of the Gulf of Mexico—urged...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – It’s an open secret that Black-sounding names can hinder employment, housing, and loan applications. Apparently, basic emails...
