JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The makeshift mid-street memorial that marked where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer last summer...
ANTONIO GONZALEZ, AP Basketball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Down big at home, the Golden State Warriors went small. It turned out to make a huge...
I really hate getting nominated for @bet awards. They're so bogus. — AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) May 18, 2015 NEW YORK (UPI) – Shortly after Azealia Banks was...
(Bloomberg) – Six years after the recession ended, many U.S. states are hard pressed to balance budgets because of a sluggish recovery and their own...
JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — Four-year-old William Cole saw his father’s face and reached out to touch it during a jail visit....
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager...
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Maryland College Park’s School of...
KEN RITTER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Blues legend B.B. King will be buried in Mississippi, but a public viewing and a private service for...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — President Barack Obama ended long-running federal transfers of some combat-style gear to local law enforcement on Monday in...
PHOENIX (AP) — A solicitation charge against Hall of Famer Warren Sapp, who was arrested during Super Bowl week on suspicion of assault and soliciting...
WASHINGTON (McClatchy) — A first-of-its-kind provision that prevents welfare recipients in Kansas from withdrawing more than $25 a day from an ATM might violate federal law,...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Contrary to the myth, though Black men are more likely to live apart from their children than...
(Salon) – Nine people have died after a shootout between rival motorcycle gangs in Waco on Sunday, when gunfire erupted in the parking lot of...
By Danny Bakewell Jr. Special to the NNPA from the LA Watts Times The Motown sound began with Berry Gordy as a dreamer in Detroit and...
(Slate) – President Obama appeared on a Georgetown-sponsored public policy panel Tuesday and, in addition to making everyone laugh a few times, he participated for about...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators of both parties worked Wednesday to revive trade legislation that’s a top priority for President Barack Obama, a...
RACHEL COHEN, AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The lawyer who investigated the New England Patriots insisted Tuesday that he found direct, not just circumstantial,...
TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Some of the Madison Police Department’s toughest critics peacefully protested in the hours after a prosecutor said he...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A little help may be on the way for historically Black colleges and universities struggling against falling...
TIM REYNOLDS, AP Basketball Writer There’s been former MVP’s winning games with dramatic buzzer-beating jumpers. There’s been injuries to stars. There’s been a coach getting questioned...
ALICIA RANCILIO, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A former executive producer of “American Idol” who helped bring the show to the U.S. said Monday he...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – While political pundits rush ahead to the 2016 presidential election, President Barack Obama is rallying private-sector,...
NEW BOSTON, Tex. (New York Times) — The inmate, dressed in prison whites with a shaved head and incongruously tender eyes behind wire-rimmed glasses, entered the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Black unemployment rate fell to single digits (9.6 percent) in April, for the first time...
(Daily Kos) – We’ve been told, quite frequently and repeatedly that the problems in the black community that we’ve seen in Ferguson and Baltimore recently...
