By Samaria Bailey Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA – U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch pushed the NAACP to keep fighting for equality in...
(Washington Post) – Sharanda Jones — prisoner 33177-077 — struggled to describe the moment in 1999 when a federal judge sentenced her to life in prison...
(New York Times) – Two men were sitting in a parked car, waiting to pick someone up. Carlos Cervantes was in the driver’s seat. He was...
(CBS News) – The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art says it will post a sign telling visitors that an exhibition featuring Bill Cosby’s art collection...
NEW YORK (Fox News) – Kylie Jenner is being accused on Instagram of cultural appropriation for wearing cornrows in her hair. “Hunger Games” actress Amandla Stenberg...
By Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently released a new rule to assist...
KATHLEEN FOODY, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The president of the Atlanta NAACP says the civil rights group wants Confederate symbols — including a giant carving...
SEANNA ADCOX, Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — GOP Gov. Nikki Haley’s successful push to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s Statehouse grounds following last...
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Residents in a predominantly black South Carolina neighborhood say fliers have been distributed claiming to be from the Ku Klux Klan....
BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police car camera footage ordered released by a federal judge show a California man disobeying orders to keep...
