WASHINGTON (AP) — A group campaigning for the Washington Redskins to change their name is sending a letter to broadcasters requesting that Redskins not be...
(The Washington Post) – On March 20 in the St. Louis County town of Florissant, someone made an illegal U-turn in front of Nicole Bolden. The...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department plans to open a wide-ranging civil rights investigation into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri. Police...
MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — After walking out of prison for the first time in three decades, former death row inmate Henry McCollum...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — The 18-year-old fatally shot by a suburban St. Louis police officer didn’t face any juvenile charges at...
SCHUYLER DIXON, AP Sports Writer IRVING, Texas (AP) — Michael Sam’s second chance will be with the Dallas Cowboys. Coach Jason Garrett said Wednesday that the...
(Los Angeles Times) – Chris Brown pleaded guilty Tuesday to an assault charge stemming from a fight that broke out last October outside the W...
PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday began reviewing tough new Texas voter ID rules challenged by the...
ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A suburban Detroit man was sentenced Wednesday to at least 17 years in prison for killing an unarmed woman...
LUMBERTON, N.C. (New York Times) — Thirty years after their convictions in the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in rural North Carolina, based on...
(USA Today) – The family of a Louisiana man who police say shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a squad car wants the...
JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lamont Jones and Keith Stephens stood 60 feet from each other, separated by four lanes of pavement...
KATHY MATHESON, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Busloads of tourists line up every day in Philadelphia to take photos with a statue of Rocky Balboa, the...
(Daily Mail) – She tied the knot with NBA star Dwyane Wade over the weekend. And Gabrielle Union certainly made sure she would feel like...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — Democrat Quinton Ross has represented a pretty safe district in the Alabama state Senate since 2002, when 72% of its voting-age...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – During a rousing, standing-room only town hall discussion dedicated to the shooting death of Michael...
By Hanqing Chen Special to the NNPA from ProPublica Protests have continued for more than a week since the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael...
HAVEN DALEY, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton broke nearly three weeks of silence Thursday on the fatal police shooting of an unarmed...
DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Diane Sawyer signed off as anchor of ABC’s “World News” on Wednesday, telling viewers that it has...
(Politico) – Three in four players in the National Football League agree with President Barack Obama’s remarks earlier this year that marijuana is less dangerous than...
by Saeed Shabazz Special to the NNPA from The Final Call NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) – Including Michael Brown, five unarmed Black men have been killed...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – At noon on Saturday, August 9, Michael Brown, 18, and his friend, Dorian Johnson, crossed paths with...
BRENDAN FARRINGTON, AP Political Writer FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — If there were any doubts that former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist would be accepted by Florida...
(The Washington Post) – Well, this could be fun. Oprah Winfrey will be playing a madam in Lee Daniels’s new Richard Pryor biopic, ET reported Tuesday. Apparently...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –Despite major advances to access to the ballot box nearly 50 years after the passage of Voting...
