TIM REYNOLDS, AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — Gregg Popovich called Game 3 of the NBA Finals an anomaly. He couldn’t use the same word to...
MARK KENNEDY, AP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For Ruby Dee, acting and activism weren’t contradictory things. They were inseparable, and they were intertwined. The...
SAO PAULO, Brazil (The Washington Post) — Antonio da Silva sat atop a dilapidated wooden throne in the middle of the city. Below him a man...
KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ruby Dee, an acclaimed actor and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio television and film,...
NEW YORK (AP) — Dave Chappelle says he never quit his Comedy Central show. He’s just seven years late to work. Chappelle appeared on “The...
JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer The O.J. Simpson murder trial exposed many painful truths. None hit harder than the idea that white and black people often...
JOSH BOAK, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — City living has been a blessing for Tim Nelson. The Phoenix lawyer moved downtown a few months ago...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – During a closed door meeting with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, a coalition of civil rights groups...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Though still in the early stages, President Obama’s special task force on Black and Latino males...
By Marlon Peterson Special to the NNPA PERSPECTIVE In 1999, when I was 19 years old, I was arrested and charged with first degree murder, several...
TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has pulled his support from a deal to sell the team to...
By Merdies Hayes Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly Pluria Marshall Jr. has purchased three FOX-affiliated television full-power stations – KLJB-TV in Davenport, Iowa; KMSS-TV...
(HNGN) – An honor-roll Virginia student, accused of murdering his parents after they took away his iPod, pled guilty, Wednesday. He was charged as an...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling on all Americans to get involved with his push to reverse underachievement among young minority men by...
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s leader vowed on Thursday to “do everything possible to bring our daughters home,” referring to the mass...
(NNPA) – After launching his Kickstarter campaign to revamp “Reading Rainbow” Wednesday, LeVar Burton hit his goal in less than 24 hours. The campaign, which is...
The vast majority of heroin users has made a complete shift in demographics, according to Bloomberg. [A research] study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, tracked data from almost...
New Orleans’s Recovery School District will close all of its remaining traditional public schools, according to the Washington Post. Education was one of the major reforms...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writers RYAN NAKASHIMA, AP Business Writers CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple is striking a new chord with a $3 billion acquisition of...
CLIFF BRUNT, AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Russell Westbrook is picking up where Kevin Durant left off. Durant hasn’t shown the same consistent excellence...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve years after barring execution of the mentally disabled, the Supreme Court on Tuesday prohibited states in borderline...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Six decades after Brown v. Board of Education, an old idea is being resurrected in hopes of...
TIM REYNOLDS, AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — The stat sheet from Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals told quite a story. It said Miami...
(USA Today) – Donald Sterling has agreed to transfer his ownership share of the Los Angeles Clippers to his wife Shelly, who will voluntarily move...
ABC US News | ABC International News (ABC News) – It’s here! The big wedding weekend to end all wedding weekends. Kim Kardashian will be married...
