Julia Craven, Ryan Grimm, and Ryan J. Reilly, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Huffington Post) — Activists DeRay Mckesson and Brittany Packnett recently spoke with Hillary Clinton’s policy...
(The Washington Post) – President Obama brought six books with him on his summer vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. And if he started reading at noon on...
(Salon) – The brutal and iniquitous treatment African-Americans suffer at the hands of their criminal justice system has been a chief topic of conversation in the...
(New York Times) – On July 20, 2006, the United States Senate voted to renew the Voting Rights Act for 25 more years. The vote was unanimous,...
(Brookings Institution) – Last Saturday, Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator running to the left of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, was confronted at a...
(Politico) – The presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders was supposed to put leftward pressure on Hillary Clinton. Instead, it’s Sanders who has become the left’s...
(The Washington Post) – This has become the summer of the political outsider, as a cast of interlopers upend and dominate the presidential nominating process in...
AIKEN, S.C. (AP) — The contractor who manages the Savannah River nuclear site in South Carolina must pay more than $235,000 to some female and black...
RIK STEVENS, Associated Press KEENE, New Hampshire (AP) — Fifty years after Jonathan Daniels was shot dead by an ardent segregationist in the southern state of...
SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois has become one of the first states nationwide to establish wide-ranging law enforcement rules for body cameras, bias-free...
KEENE, N.H. (Politico) — Hillary Clinton met with five Black Lives Matter activists behind closed doors following her campaign event here on Tuesday evening, after the...
(Salon) – According to multiple media reports, a group of at least four or five heavily armed white men showed up on the streets of Ferguson,...
(Daily Kos) – Christian Taylor, 19. Amber Monroe, 20. Tyrone Harris, 18. Andre Green, 15. Those are just a few of the black people murdered last...
by Larry Miller Special to the NNPA from The Philadelphia Tribune Public reaction to the indictment of U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, an 11-term Philadelphia congressman has...
By LINDA ZHANG and JANIE HAR, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders vowed that he would fight harder than any other presidential...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, civil rights groups and...
by Charles D. Ellison Special to the NNPA from The Philadelphia Tribune Of course, there will be plenty of plucky best moments snapshots of Thursday night’s...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NEWS ANALYSIS WASHINGTON (NNPA) – This is the kind of stuff that you can’t make up. During the first debate...
(ABC News) – A White House staffer is facing assault charges after shooting at a Capitol Police officer using the cop’s own gun after a lover’s...
Robert Kuttner, THE HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post) — It was a good week for disruptive innovation. Three protestors affiliated with Black Lives Matter shut down...
Robert Draper, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE WASHINGTON (The New York Times Magazine) — Last Friday, during a speech before a virtually all-black audience at...
Dan Merica, CNN NEW YORK (CNN.com) — Hillary Clinton will roll out her college affordability plan Monday, pledging to voters in New Hampshire that “costs...
Philip Rucker, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said Saturday that fellow presidential candidate Donald Trump’s derogatory commentary has begun inflicting...
Don Babwin, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Police Department will allow independent evaluations of its stop-and-frisk procedures that critics say target blacks under...
(The Washington Post) – Welcome to our first edition of fact checks of the debates for the 2016 presidential election cycle. Fox News aired two debates on...
