Scripture tells us that accepting Jesus Christ as a way of life is never an easy task. Being crucified, thrown to the lions for fun and...
(NBC News) – A growing movement against the jailing of poor offenders who cannot pay fines has hit New Hampshire, where the local American Civil Liberties...
TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Police Department’s effort to equip officers with body cameras has run up against an unlikely...
By Stephanie Carson, N.C. News Service Special to the NNPA via The Charlotte Post RALEGH (NNPA) – At a time when the manner in which...
SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The ACLU is asking federal and California civil rights agencies to investigate what it calls “the systemic...
MEGHAN BARR, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s largest mass transit system banned all political advertising on its subways and buses Wednesday after a...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police officers initiated stop, question and frisk encounters at a much higher rate last summer than their New...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Usually bitter adversaries, Koch Industries and the Center for American Progress have found at least one thing they can agree on: The nation’s...
(St. Louis Public Radio) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, along with its national voting rights division, has sued the Ferguson-Florissant School District...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An American Civil Liberties Union attorney was named Wednesday to be the acting head of the Justice Department’s Civil...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Officials from the National Action Network, the National Urban League the National Bar Association, the...
In the latest installment of the Florida Courier’s series on Blacks and mental health, we review the Miami Herald’s spotlight on the state’s inability to handle...
LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer defending the government’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records found himself facing tough questions...
NIGEL DUARA, Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Thirteen people say their placement on the no-fly list deprives them of their due process rights, while lawyers...
[Religion News Service] NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) A Tennessee judge should not have barred a couple from naming their child “Messiah,” said the executive director of the...
[The Washington Post] The spread of cheap, powerful cameras capable of reading license plates has allowed police to build databases on the movements of millions of...
by Floyd Alvin Galloway Special to the NNPA from the Arizona Informant PHOENIX (NNPA) – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Arizona filed...
A Parent’s Agony By Danny L. White Special to the NNPA from The Arizona Informant PHOENIX (NNPA) – An 11-year-old African American male student at Laveen...
National Black Chamber of Commerce Opposes Law By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNAP) – After hearing oral arguments earlier on whether an affirmative action...
[Black Enterprise] The Stop and Frisk Watch app, courtesy of the New York Civil Liberties Union, allows users to record videos of and report “stop and...
