(The Washington Post) – On March 20 in the St. Louis County town of Florissant, someone made an illegal U-turn in front of Nicole Bolden. The...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jenny R. Yang has been named as the new chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, becoming the first Asian-American to lead...
(The Washington Post) – The House is in GOP hands, and no one thinks the November midterm elections will change that. Republicans could lose governorships...
LISA CORNWELL, Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — The parents of four black students who allege their children were expelled over rap music videos and targeted because...
PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday began reviewing tough new Texas voter ID rules challenged by the...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Opening arguments in Detroit’s historic bankruptcy trial are expected to begin Tuesday afternoon in federal court, where lawyers for...
(Los Angeles Times) – For 83 years, Coachella Valley High School has rallied behind a mascot with a snarling face, a hooked nose, a heavy...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — Democrat Quinton Ross has represented a pretty safe district in the Alabama state Senate since 2002, when 72% of its voting-age...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Barack Obama renewed his push for Congress to raise the minimum wage Monday in a buoyant accounting of...
Kenneth P. Vogel, POLITICO DALLAS (Politico) — Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Pence, Rick Perry and Ben Carson all sounded like presidential candidates in weekend...
JUDY LIN, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — State lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill that would make California the first state to define when “yes...
(Politico) – Maxine Waters — the fiery liberal from Los Angeles known for calling House Republican leadership “demons” and threatening to nationalize oil companies — has...
HAVEN DALEY, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton broke nearly three weeks of silence Thursday on the fatal police shooting of an unarmed...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Faced with deepening crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, President Barack Obama is putting the brakes...
(Politico) – Three in four players in the National Football League agree with President Barack Obama’s remarks earlier this year that marijuana is less dangerous than...
(Politico) – Democrats hear only one thing when Republicans talk about fighting President Barack Obama’s immigration agenda or GOP plans for controlling Congress: government shutdown. In...
BRENDAN FARRINGTON, AP Political Writer FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — If there were any doubts that former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist would be accepted by Florida...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (New York Times) — President Obama on Tuesday promised several thousand military veterans that he would fulfill his “sacred trust” to those returning...
MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Obama administration, accusing it of illegally manipulating federal...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –Despite major advances to access to the ballot box nearly 50 years after the passage of Voting...
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from The Afro-American Newspaper If Republicans have their way, the last years of Barack Obama’s presidency will be...
(Politico) – Rep. Elijah Cummings, along with other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, sent a letter Monday to President Barack Obama, urging the administration to...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the aftermath of the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed, Black teenager by a...
by James Wright Special to the NNPA from The Afro-American Newspaper The United States has never had a Black female as the governor of a state-level...
[fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=JXZjIPlBkLo” splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JXZjIPlBkLo/hqdefault.jpg”] (The Washington Post) – “All my black friends have a bunch of white friends. And all my white friends have one black friend.” That’s the...
