By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – For the second month in a row, the Black unemployment rate decreased, and the economy added...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – During a closed door meeting with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, a coalition of civil rights groups...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Though still in the early stages, President Obama’s special task force on Black and Latino males...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 5 million Americans struggling to make their monthly student loan payments could find relief under a program...
By Marlon Peterson Special to the NNPA PERSPECTIVE In 1999, when I was 19 years old, I was arrested and charged with first degree murder, several...
HARUNA UMAR, Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped 20 women from a nomadic settlement in northeast Nigeria near the...
by Stan Washington Special to the NNPA from The Atlanta Voice Representatives from a minority business association say they are concerned that minority participation in the...
TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has pulled his support from a deal to sell the team to...
BRIAN MAHONEY, AP Basketball Writer Derek Fisher has agreed to become the next coach of the New York Knicks and will be introduced at a...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic The film 21 Jump Street was a hip, focused, comic homage to the 1980s TV series. 22 Jump Street is an unfocussed potpourri of...
