by Rev. Franklin Fortier Special to the NNPA from the Greene County Democrat The Selma Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is protesting the Legal...
[CNN MONEY] It’s been two years since the launch of Occupy Wall Street, the New York-based social movement that quickly spread to encompass headline-grabbing protests around...
[LOS ANGELES TIMES] WASHINGTON – Aaron Alexis, the gunman who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday before being fatally shot by law enforcement...
by Blair Adams Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper On the heels of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A new report confirms the old saw: The rich are getting richer. According to a report titled,...
[REUTERS] The percentage of Americans living in poverty remained steady last year at 15 percent after rising for several years in the wake of the recession,...
[THE TIMES-PICAYUNE] Citing the “grotesque” misconduct of federal prosecutors, a judge on Tuesday granted a new trial for five former New Orleans Police Departmentofficers convicted in the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the modern civil rights era, no year stands out in my memory more than 1963. I was a...
