(CNN) – WTF? That’s exactly what the political world has been asking since President Barack Obama went to a garage in Los Angeles to record...
BRIAN MAHONEY, AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves selected Kentucky’s Karl-Anthony Towns with the first pick in the NBA draft on Thursday...
ROBERT BURNS, National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army on Wednesday defended its past practice of naming forts and posts after Confederate Army generals, saying...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic Sometimes artistry and insanity are so intertwined you can’t distinguish between them. That was the challenge for singer Nina Simone;...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama took on a heckler head-on at a gay pride month reception at the White House Wednesday, scolding the protester...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies underpinning President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, rejecting a...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alexander H. Stephens, onetime vice president of the Confederacy, sits memorialized in stone, right leg crossed over left, staring...
TOM WITHERS, AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — A person familiar with the decision says Cavaliers forward Kevin Love has opted out of the final year...
(The Washington Post) – Once again, Twitter is howling about Don Lemon. And that’s a bad thing? The CNN anchor whipped social media into a frenzy — another frenzy...
The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Tributes to the Confederacy and the Jim Crow era that have existed still abound in the Deep South and beyond...
(The Atlantic) – This afternoon, in announcing her support for removing the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley asserted that...
(USA Today) – A black man who died in police custody in Baltimore in April died of a “high-energy injury” that likely happened when the...
STEVE REED, AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Michael Jordan vowed to restore interest in the Charlotte Hornets when he took over as the franchise’s...
JOHN ANTCZAK, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs was defending himself in an incident at the University of California, Los Angeles, that led...
(Politico) – President Barack Obama’s glad he said what he said. And he believes America proved his point on Monday: Even in the wake of...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When President Obama returns to Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. Friday to eulogize Rev. Clementa Pinckney,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In what is quickly and unexpectedly gaining ground as a fitting memorial to the nine African Americans...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On the same day that Loretta Lynch was sworn-in as the 83rd attorney general of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A racist manifesto linked to Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old White man who confessed to shooting nine...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – We may never know what ignited the explosion inside of White Supremacist Dylann Roof that prompted...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — They forgave him. They advised him to repent for his sins, and asked for God’s mercy on his...
(The Post & Courier) – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Friday morning that the gunman who killed nine people at the downtown Emanuel African Methodist...
(The Washington Post) – A gunman opened fire and killed nine people during a prayer service on Wednesday at a historic African American church in...
(The Washington Post) – After Dylann Storm Roof allegedly shot up an AME church in Charleston, S.C., killing nine people, two flags were lowered more than 100 miles...
