JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is planning to focus on improving the lives of girls and women of color, after...
Tom Coyne and Michael Tarm, ASSOCIATED PRESS GARY, Ind. (AP) — Police investigating the slayings of seven northwestern Indiana women whose bodies were found over the weekend...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist During the most critical period of Jessica’s childhood, adults who could have intervened to protect her from abuse let her...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – While Black girls posses high levels of leadership qualities, they receive the least opportunity to fill...
José Patiño Girona, THE TAMPA TRIBUNE TAMPA, Fla. (The Tampa Tribune) — The last time Jerlean Moore talked to her daughter on the phone, she sang...
Ryan Grenoble, THE HUFFINGTON POST PHILADELPHIA (The Huffington Post)—Mo’Ne Davis throws like a girl — which is to say, she throws better than most of...
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...
By Luke Charles Harris Special to the NNPA News Service I’ve been told I should be the first among many to celebrate President Obama’s My...
[Below is the full text of men’s letter to President Obama seeking inclusion of Black females into “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative] We write as African American...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – March 1 was the last time eight year-old Relisha Rudd was seen, leaving a local hotel...
[ROLLING OUT] Imagine finally meeting your birth mother and asking the question that every adopted child asks — after “Why did you give me up?” —...
African American Woman Shows Girls They Are Positively Perfect with Doll Line By Chida R. Warren-Darby Special to the NNPA from The San Diego Voice &...
