ROB MAADDI, AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — No one in the sports world had heard of the 2014 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year...
by Karen Juanita Carrillo Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News President Obama’s surprise announcement that the United States will normalize relations with...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic R.I.P. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Your story has been told. Your legacy passed on. Your strategies for non-violent...
(Entertainment Weekly) – In the wake of criticisms of Selma’s characterization of President Lyndon B. Johnson, director Ava DuVernay argued that people should “interrogate history.” In a...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black Republicans made history during the midterm elections in November by winning in Texas, South Carolina...
The Associated Press The killings of two unarmed black men by white police officers in Missouri and New York this summer touched off protests and...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Fox News, which mislabels itself as “fair and balanced,” was anything but in 2014, according to MediaMatters.org, the independent...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist As we begin 2015, millions of people throughout the world will make their annual New Year’s resolutions. But...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist The movie Selma, which debuted on Christmas Day, is an eerily timely film detailing a history not taught in...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist People must wonder why the United States has been so hard on Cuba for the past 55 years. The...
