By Ryan Cooper Special to the NNPA from the Los Angeles Sentinel About three years ago, in late March 2010, Shirley Sherrod, who was then the...
[LOS ANGELES TIMES] Somehow, it seems appropriate that a freshman Republican congressman who raises reindeer to pull Santa’s sleigh in holiday parades is suggesting that impeaching...
[THE WASHINGTON INFORMER] Hundreds of District residents attended an early morning rally leading up to the commemorative March on Washington to voice their outrage over their...
[REUTERS] The United Nations said on Monday it plans to contact the United States over a report that the U.S. National Security Agency bugged its New...
Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Daily World On Sunday, Congressman Hank Johnson presented DeKalb County resident Antoinette Tuff with a Congressional proclamation and poem...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – One of the primary goals of the 1963 March on Washington was finding or creating jobs for...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – Fulfilling a pledge to aggressively protect the voting rights of people of color in the wake of...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – National Urban League President Marc H. Morial has called for “a new civil rights movement,” one that...
© CBS News June 26, 2013 (CBS) SANFORD, Fla. – A friend of Florida teen Trayvon Martin who was on the phone with him just before...
[WBAY] New research shows exercising right after eating doesn’t cause cramps–it’s good for you. A new study shows going for a walk right after you eat...
[LOS ANGELES TIMES] It’s the new retirement: More than four in 10 Americans think they’ll have to work into their 70s or 80s because they can’t...
[UPROXX] While Google works on giving everybody on the Internet cats, instantly, whenever the mood strikes, it decided to make it easier to find the second...
[CNN MONEY] When it comes to cloud computing services, Amazon (AMZN) is the clear leader. But San Antonio-based Rackspace Hosting (RAX) has been gaining traction with...
[U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT] The number of children in the United States with autism spectrum disorder has jumped dramatically since 2007, federal health officials...
Mississippi finally outlawed slavery. The Jackson Clarion Ledger: “There was an asterisk beside Mississippi. A note read: ‘Mississippi ratified the amendment in 1995, but because the...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will take up a case from Alabama next week to decide whether to strike down a key part of the Voting...
PALM CITY, Fla. — In a gym usually home to the Hyde Park Academy Thunderbirds, President Obama spoke about his own home late last week —...
There are two ways you might have heard of Dr. Ben Carson. If you’re a doctor or follow medicine, you might know of his great success...
LONDON: Britain’s military has flown troops and heavy equipment from Ghana to Mali to support the international intervention in the West African nation, the British Defense...
Democratic National Committee executive director Patrick Gaspard, formerly the Obama White House political director, appears to be the administration’s pick to be the next ambassador to...
Fox News announced Friday that it has hired Herman Cain, the spirited former presidential candidate and ex-pizza CEO, as a contributor for Fox News Channel and...
Yesterday, Senate Democrats released their plan to avert the sequester for the rest of the year — it contains $110 billion in deficit reduction, evenly divided...
It is going to take more than requiring universal background checks, banning military-style assault weapons and showcasing families hurt by gun violence to impact the urban...
The president, whose ad-libbed comment about long voting lines the night he won re-election has turned into a policy push, announced during his State of the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After three years of steadfastly declaring her innocence, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has been finally exonerated of...
