Black Unemployment Dips Below 10 Percent

By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Black unemployment rate fell to single digits (9.6 percent) in April, for the first time...

The Absent Black Father Myth—Debunked by CDC

  (Daily Kos) – We’ve been told, quite frequently and repeatedly that the problems in the black community that we’ve seen in Ferguson and Baltimore recently...

States Vary in Success at Improving High School Grad Rates

KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The record high American graduation rate masks large gaps among low income students and those with disabilities compared...

Mother: Son Accused in Officer Killings Had Drug Problem

JAY REEVES, Associated Press JEFF AMY, Associated Press HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Marvin Banks’ drug use and drinking had worsened in recent years and he was...

Brian Clay Chronicles with Berlin Boyd

Car Review: 2015 Kia K900

By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist   DETROIT (NNPA) – Eyebrows raised when Kia announced a little more than one year ago the development of the...

Reel-ality TV Talk

By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist   The drama went to the next level during Part 2 of the RHOA reunion. Phaedra and Kandi finally had it...

Financial Predators Still Target Active Duty Military

By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist   The men and women who wear our nation’s uniform are expected to defend our nation at home and abroad. Yet,...

How Can you Tell When a Politician is Lying?

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist   How can you tell when a politician is lying? When he moves his lips. Though originally intended as a...

Closing the Chapter on Vietnam

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist   In December 2009 the airliner I was on touched down in Hanoi, Vietnam. That was my first time to...