Enough with the Will Smith-Jada Pinkett Smith Breakup Rumors

(CNN) – Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are not calling it quits this summer. That’s the first thing you need to know. The actors, who...

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Unveils Legislation to Address Law Enforcement and Youth Incarceration

By Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, and...

How a Young Joe Biden Turned Liberals Against Integration

(Politico) – Forty years ago, a contentious battle over racial justice gripped Capitol Hill, pitting the nation’s lone African-American senator against the man who would one...

Civil Rights Groups Demand Federal Investigation into the Death of Sandra Bland

By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A broad coalition of civil rights groups delivered more than 500,000 signed petitions to the Justice...

Sandra Bland’s Family Files Federal Lawsuit

HOUSTON (USA Today) — The family of Sandra Bland, the Illinois woman found dead in a Texas jail cell last month, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Houston...

Prosecutor: White Officer Panicked Before Shooting Black Man

JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Both sides in the voluntary manslaughter trial of a white Charlotte police officer in the on duty shooting...

U.S. Gun Violence: A Human Rights Failure

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The United Nations Human Rights Committee has given the U.S. a series of failing grades on human...

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Report: Adidas Offers James Harden $200 Million Deal to Leave Nike

Ananth Pandian, CBS SPORTS     (CBS Sports) — With Damian Lillard, John Wall, Derrick Rose and Andrew Wiggins on its roster, Adidas has some of...