KATHLEEN RONAYNE, Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told activists from the “Black Lives Matter” movement they should promote specific...
By Marilyn Marshall Special to the NNPA from the Houston Defender HOUSTON (NNPA) – Demonstrators who recently gathered outside the Waller County Jail demanded justice for Sandra...
Adrienne Green, THE ATLANTIC (The Atlantic) — A few decades have changed a lot about hip-hop, but arguably not that much about America. In 1986,...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Nineteen-year-old Zachary Hammond was sitting in a Hardee’s parking lot in his hometown of Seneca, SC, on a first date....
Ken Thomas, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONG GROVE, Iowa (AP) — After bounding atop a blue trailer in a community park, Bernie Sanders quickly reminded people here...
Janell Ross, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — In 1988, when crack wars raged in communities across the country, hip-hop was still a relatively...
Dana Leibelson, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Huffington Post) — A Las Vegas campaign event for GOP presidential contender Jeb Bush came to a sudden...
Julia Craven, Ryan Grimm, and Ryan J. Reilly, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Huffington Post) — Activists DeRay Mckesson and Brittany Packnett recently spoke with Hillary Clinton’s policy...
(Brookings Institution) – Last Saturday, Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator running to the left of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, was confronted at a...
(Politico) – The presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders was supposed to put leftward pressure on Hillary Clinton. Instead, it’s Sanders who has become the left’s...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — By Wednesday, police outnumbered protesters in the St. Louis suburb that launched the “Black Lives Matter” movement, signaling...
KEENE, N.H. (Politico) — Hillary Clinton met with five Black Lives Matter activists behind closed doors following her campaign event here on Tuesday evening, after the...
(Salon) – According to multiple media reports, a group of at least four or five heavily armed white men showed up on the streets of Ferguson,...
(Daily Kos) – Christian Taylor, 19. Amber Monroe, 20. Tyrone Harris, 18. Andre Green, 15. Those are just a few of the black people murdered last...
By LINDA ZHANG and JANIE HAR, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders vowed that he would fight harder than any other presidential...
by Charles D. Ellison Special to the NNPA from The Philadelphia Tribune Of course, there will be plenty of plucky best moments snapshots of Thursday night’s...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson during a protest that stretched into...
(CBS News) – One year ago, after the death of Michael Brown and the overblown police response to largely peaceful demonstrations, lawmakers in Washington said they had...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist I applaud the Black Lives Matter Movement for renewing attention on police violence against Blacks, an issue that is old...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Many people see this situation escalating, and I think it shows the frustration that many minority communities feel when...
By Oscar H. Blayton NNPA Guest Columnist For more than a century, African tour operators (usually White) have helped their European and American clients bag...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Almost daily there is another fatal case of racially-motivated police brutality that occurs against a Black American woman,...
Robert Kuttner, THE HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post) — It was a good week for disruptive innovation. Three protestors affiliated with Black Lives Matter shut down...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) — A year ago, Ferguson, Missouri, was a mostly quiet working-class suburban town. The uneasy...
(CBS News) – One year ago, the nation watched as the city of Ferguson, Mo., erupted. St. Louis police, dressed in riot gear, stood in a...
