by E.R. Shipp Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Between the bodacious demands of young people practically demanding that York Road motorists honk their...
TOM FOREMAN Jr., Associated Press AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Rioters plunged part of Baltimore into chaos Monday, torching a pharmacy, setting police...
LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Chris Pratt left the CinemaCon crowd in stitches with his irreverent, high-energy and slightly racy comments at...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As attorney general Loretta Lynch assumes a portfolio that includes fighting terrorism, preventing cyberattacks and dealing with police and...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — No video captured what happened to Freddie Gray inside the police van where officers heaved...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown’s parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Ferguson on Thursday, opening a new chapter...
MARK KENNEDY, AP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway-goers this fall will get a special treat — James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson sharing the...
(The Washington Post) – Loretta E. Lynch’s long wait to win confirmation as U.S. attorney general ended Thursday, after the Senate narrowly approved the veteran...
TIM DAHLBERG, AP Boxing Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. refused Wednesday to back off earlier comments declaring himself a better fighter than Muhammad...
(NBC News) – Loretta Lynch, the federal prosecutor President Barack Obama tapped as his pick to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, will finally get a...
(CNN) – As protesters decrying Freddie Gray’s death plan more rallies in Baltimore Thursday, anger is mounting over a police union’s comparison of the protest...
TULSA, Okla. (CBS News) – CBS News has learned that a 2009 investigation by the Tulsa Sheriff’s Office concluded that there were concerns over Robert...
(USA Today) – Don Hale chuckled when he recalled what Floyd Mayweather Jr. told him the boxer’s family members called Hale. “His white daddy,” Hale...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, the first feature-length film to focus on the origin and...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s long-stalled nominee for attorney general, federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch, is on her way to a confirmation...
Parma, MO (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) – The drugstore is long gone. So, too, are the bank and the barbershop, the opry house and the hardware store....
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Amid tears and cries for justice, demonstrators poured into the streets of Baltimore carrying signs emblazoned with the name...
(CNN) – The bizarre circumstances surrounding Freddie Gray’s death have inflamed tensions across the country. How could a man suffer a severe spinal cord injury after getting...
KELLY P. KISSEL, Associated Press SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Tulsa County volunteer deputy who shot and killed a suspect after mistaking...
by Mary L. Datcher Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender Bill Duke is one of America’s most prolific actors and directors as he continues...
(Salon) – Independent of one’s stance on the rift between Michael Eric Dyson and Cornel West — a rift years in the making and now clearly...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The lawyer for the family of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of spinal injuries during an arrest...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — The death of a man sharing a prison cell with former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips was ruled a homicide by strangulation,...
ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — On paper, the evidence in the murder case against Marion “Suge” Knight looks strong: Prosecutors have a...
LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The hardest sell for President Barack Obama will be persuading members of his own party to back a bipartisan...
