DAVID PORTER, Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan has settled his lawsuit against Wal-Mart over a highway crash that killed one man and...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A 31-year-old woman and a young boy were shot in the head Thursday, becoming Baltimore’s 37th and 38th homicide...
by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer Black America is in a state of emergency, and what’s happened in Baltimore, Ferguson,...
TOM WITHERS, AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Escorted by family members and friends, LeBron James walked out of Quicken Loans Arena cradling his sleepy youngest...
(Hollywood Reporter) – Amma Asante has come aboard to direct A United Kingdom, a racial drama that has David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike in negotiations to star. Pathe International is financing...
GRAHAM DUNBAR, AP Sports Writer ZURICH (AP) — Swiss prosecutors opened criminal proceedings into FIFA on Wednesday, only hours after seven soccer officials were arrested and...
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — The centerpiece of an agreement between the city of Cleveland and the U.S. Department of Justice on how to...
SAM HANANEL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider whether prosecutors improperly singled out potential black jurors in notes and then excluded them...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Parents, students and advocates for strong neighborhood schools continue to pressure civic leaders to end the expansion...
(Salon) – The continuing decline of public sector jobs at local, state, and federal levels is having an abysmal economic impact on African Americans, for...
DAVE GRAM, Associated Press KEN THOMAS, Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders kicked off his longshot presidential campaign Tuesday with a pitch...
KEN RITTER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two B.B. King heirs who’ve been most outspoken about the blues legend’s care in his final days have...
(Salon) – Voting matters. Though many Americans believe that voting is either useless or merely a civic duty, in reality it carries huge consequences for...
300 Men March Group and Others Speak & Step-Out Against Continuing Baltimore Violence by Kamau High Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper One day...
(Slate) – Baltimore’s streets are quiet again. Baltimore’s state’s attorney Marilyn J. Mosby moved quickly in securing indictments against six police officers in the death of...
CHARLES ODUM, AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — While the Atlanta Hawks try to figure out who will guard LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavaliers are just...
JOAN LOWY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats on Thursday demanded that Republicans provide more money for Amtrak so the railroad can tackle a $21...
KEN RITTER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Five of B.B. King’s adult children visited the blues great one last time in private at a Las...
(Politico) – For the first time in the decade and a half that Gallup has been tracking Americans’ ideologies, the percentage of those identifying their...
(CBS News) – On the first day of her job, Attorney General Loretta Lynch was tasked with briefing the president on race riots in Baltimore, reports “CBS This...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A grand jury’s decision to indict all six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, who died of...
PAUL NEWBERRY, AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — J.R. Smith knocked down a tough 3-pointer, then another. Turning toward the fans, their heckling transformed to groans,...
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The body of blues legend B.B. King will return next week to the Mississippi Delta where his...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Whites are moving back to the American city that came to epitomize white flight, even as blacks continue to...
STACY A. ANDERSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The family of civil rights activist Rosa Parks viewed some of her personal memorabilia for the first time...
