By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Thirty years ago, one year of tuition, room, and board at a nation’s four-year, degree-granting institution cost...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite the unprecedented levels of obstruction from Republicans in the Senate, President Obama has managed to...
[The Washington Post] President Obama gave a series of comments to the New Yorker’s David Remnick that, predictably, are attracting attention this morning because he said: “There’s no doubt that there’s some...
JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer Five decades and $1 billion after an infamous racial episode made Little Rock, Ark., a national symbol of school segregation, the...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of thousands more American babies, toddlers and preschoolers would be eligible for early childhood programs under a...
KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Recreational marijuana may be legal in Colorado and Washington, but debates over the drug are far from over. Here’s...
[Huffington Post] Ann Coulter called Melissa Harris-Perry MSNBC’s “token” African-American on Monday, in response to the host’s apology to the Romney family. Harris-Perry came under fire recently...
[New York Times] WASHINGTON — Senator Marco Rubio says the American dream has become “unattainable.” Senator Mike Lee says reforming government benefits programs should be the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PRETORIA, South Africa (NNPA) – Nearly a month after his death, there is a bitter struggle to define – and,...
NEWS ANALYSIS By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PRETORIA, South Africa (NNPA) – President Obama and former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush...
[The Huffington Post] WASHINGTON — It’s a bit too soon to judge President Barack Obama on his terrible pardon record, Attorney General Eric Holder told a group...
FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Saturday Night Live” plans to add one or two black female performers to its cast as soon...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief QUNU, South Africa (NNPA) – With a rich mixture of ceremonial military pomp and ancient tribal customs, Nelson Mandela,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PRETORIA, South Africa – Most of the leaders and dignitaries who converged on this capital city last Monday...
FREDERIC J. FROMMER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Rep. Charles Rangel that had sought to overturn the 2010...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief SOWETO, South Africa (NNPA) – President Barack Obama described Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first Black elected president, as...
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LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama announced a new initiative at the National Institutes of Health in pursuit of a cure...
[The Washington Post] Since World War II, there’s been a strikingly consistent pattern in American politics: The economy does much better when a Democrat is in...
[The Washington Post] The Obama administration moved Tuesday to limit the expansive role that nonprofit groups play in politics, proposing a regulation that would rein in...
[The Washington Post] “I’m not a particularly ideological person,” President Obama told a group of Democratic donors at a fundraiser in Seattle on Sunday night. Republican...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the American electorate becomes more diverse, new voting laws threaten to disenfranchise young Black and Latino...
By Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA Three of the last Scottsboro Boys, African American youths falsely accused of raping two White women in 1931, were...
WASHINGTON — The White House says National Security Adviser Susan Rice is in Afghanistan to meet with government officials, including President Hamid Karzai, and visit U.S....
(Reuters) – Dallas will observe the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination with its first official memorial on Friday, as the rest of the...
