(UPI) – Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice believes he has changed his ways since the domestic violence incident that cost him his NFL career. Rice said...
(The Guardian) – A police officer in Alabama proposed murdering a black resident and creating bogus evidence to suggest the killing was in self-defense, the Guardian has...
FERGUSON, Mo. (New York Times) — Brianna West stepped before the judge as her daughter Morgan, 3, fidgeted beside her. Ms. West had waited weeks to...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of blacks in the United States — more than 3 out of 5 — say they...
(Daily Kos) – Beloved by his family and friends, 24-year-old Jonathan Ferrell was engaged to be married and had recently moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, from...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After the Senate’s derailing of Republican legislation halting federal dollars for Planned Parenthood, one thing seems clear: Many on...
(CNN) – Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are not calling it quits this summer. That’s the first thing you need to know. The actors, who...
By Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, and...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A broad coalition of civil rights groups delivered more than 500,000 signed petitions to the Justice...
HOUSTON (USA Today) — The family of Sandra Bland, the Illinois woman found dead in a Texas jail cell last month, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Houston...
Ananth Pandian, CBS SPORTS (CBS Sports) — With Damian Lillard, John Wall, Derrick Rose and Andrew Wiggins on its roster, Adidas has some of...
TIM BOOTH, AP Sports Writer RENTON, Wash. (AP) — Russell Wilson is sticking around with the Seattle Seahawks. Wilson signed a four-year contract extension with the...
MARK KENNEDY, AP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lupita Nyong’o, the Oscar-winner for her role in Steve McQueen’s “12 Years A Slave” will make her...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (The Washington Post) — “Our country has changed,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote in 2013, when the Supreme Court freed Southern states...
BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — An announcement by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan that he is closing the Baltimore City Detention Center marked a...
(Slate) – Two police officers who supported the apparently false narrative given by officer Ray Tensing to justify his fatal shooting of unarmed black motorist Sam...
MEG KINNARD, Associated Press BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The white man accused of gunning down nine parishioners at a black church in...
(ProPublica) – Georgia has been illegally and unnecessarily segregating thousands of students with behavioral issues and disabilities, isolating them in run-down facilities and providing them with...
(USA Today) – Vin Baker played for six different franchises over the course of his 13 seasons in the NBA. Baker was named to four NBA...
(Philly.com) – Renee Chenault-Fattah, wife of the indicted Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), was not charged by federal authorities Wednesday – but the longtime NBC10 anchor...
LISA CORNWELL, Associated Press DAN SEWELL, Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — A University of Cincinnati police officer who shot a motorist after stopping him over a...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NEWS ANALYSIS BATON ROUGE, La. – It was a scene that a young, militant Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. could not...
(Bleacher Report) – Just when you thought the Shaquille O’Neal-Scottie Pippen feud was over, it has started up again. Last week, the basketball world had a hard...
LISA CORNWELL, Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — A University of Cincinnati officer who shot a motorist during a traffic stop over a missing front license plate...
