(Bloomberg) – Clearing Detroit’s vacant and decaying properties would cost about $2 billion, according to the first detailed blight census of the bankrupt city. The Detroit...
(Reuters) – Utah’s Mia Love, a Republican darling who could become the first conservative black woman elected to U.S. Congress, is getting a second, and...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Six decades after Brown v. Board of Education, an old idea is being resurrected in hopes of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – More than 60 percent of Black students could receive greater financial aid for college through the Pell...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the two weeks leading up the to unofficial start of summer, reports of accidental drowning deaths...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The growing racial wealth gap – $200 in median wealth for Blacks in 2011 and $23,000 for...
TIM REYNOLDS, AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — The stat sheet from Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals told quite a story. It said Miami...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic If hindsight is 20/20, the X-Men have perfect vision in this back-to-the-future reboot of a sagging franchise that needed...
Boy killed while defending his sister from sexual assault by Joey Matthews Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Eight-year-old Martin Cobb and his...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist If you let the Republicans tell it, President Obama is directly responsible for the fiasco at the Veterans Administration. But...