By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist President Obama marked the 50th anniversary of Selma by celebrating the ordinary heroes who sacrificed so much to...
Wesley Lowery and David A. Fahrenthold, THE WASHINGTON POST CLAYTON, Mo. (The Washington Post)—Authorities charged a 20-year-old man from the St. Louis area with shooting two...
Amanda Bennett, HUFFINGTON POST TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (Huffington Post)—On March 10, Elliot Spillers was elected the first African American SGA president at the University of Alabama...
Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith, Center for Public Integrity via THE WASHINGTON POST PELINDABA, South Africa (The Washington Post)—Enough nuclear explosive to fuel half...
Clarence Roy-Macaulay and Robbie Corey-Boulet, ASSOCIATED PRESS FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Sierra Leone’s vice president sought asylum from the United States on Saturday, saying...
Sylvie Corbet, ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS (AP) — France has reoriented its military efforts in West Africa to focus more on the fight against Boko Haram,...
Alexei Oreskovic, REUTERS (Reuters)—Apple Inc’s new smartwatch may be a tough sell, with 69 percent of Americans indicating they are not interested in buying the...
Josh Constine, TECH CRUNCH (TechCrunch.com)—Facebook today announced it has acquired personalized shopping search engine TheFind to help improve its commerce ads. TheFind had raised $26 million from...
Borys Kit, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER (Hollywood Reporter)—Eddie Murphy is in talks to join the Richard Pryor biopic that Lee Daniels is directing for The Weinstein Co.,...
Hugh McIntyre, FORBES (Forbes.com)—Some people just can’t get enough of the spotlight, can they? In addition to her many upcoming and ongoing projects, global pop...