HARLEM (Politico) — For decades, they’ve battled for supremacy atop Harlem’s political order: Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel, the polished committee chairman and power broker, and the...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — When they pull up to a gas station these days, Detroit drivers are looking beyond the price per gallon...
ERIK SCHELZIG, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As the rest of the nation debates the feasibility and humanity of lethal injections against a backdrop of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help locate the nearly 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria last month,...
(Politico) – President Barack Obama’s administration has agreed to make public edited versions of a memo one of his judicial nominees wrote finding it lawful to...
JIM LITKE, AP Sports Writer Former NFL lineman Jeremy Newberry says he often hobbled into the 49ers locker room using a walking boot and crutches, then...
RAUL DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs were planning to attack the lane whether Oklahoma City big man Serge Ibaka was...
San Francisco (Business Report) – Twitter is in early-stage discussions to acquire or partner with music-related startups, according to people with knowledge of the talks,...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times Back in 2007, an article entitled “Police brutality cases on rise since 9/11” appeared...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In 1954, Lucinda Todd was one of 13 plaintiffs in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Democrats and civil rights advocates continue to express concerns over two of President Barack Obama’s federal...
(The Washington Post) – There was a bullet in the barroom wall. And the kid reporter had to have it. It mattered little to Dean...
(CNN) — Nigeria and four neighboring countries will share intelligence and border surveillance in the hunt for more than 200 Nigerian girls still held by Boko Haram,...
BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says subtle, institutionalized racism has a more “pernicious” effect than the occasional bigoted outburst. Holder spoke about...
JOHN HANNA, Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama told Kansas high school graduates Friday that young people who’ve grown up with diversity...
The Associated Press The planned documentary by the Oprah Winfrey Network on Michael Sam, the NFL’s first openly gay player, has been postponed. Erik Logan,...
TIM DAHLBERG, AP Sports Writer An antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA took a new twist when former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon and 19 other former...
The Associated Press On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation of public schools violated the equal protection guarantees of the 14th...
NEW YORK (AP) — Rousing Democrats for their fight to keep the Senate, President Barack Obama mounted a searing critique of the Republican Party on...
MANUEL VALDES, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — They’ve crowded into stuffy rallies at a Seattle union hall, protested in front of fast food restaurants, marched down...
NEWS ANALYSIS By Todd Steven Burroughs Special to the NNPA News Service NEWARK, N.J.—Ras Baraka, one of the sons of the late poet/playwright Amiri Baraka,...
DETROIT (AP) — Longtime Congressman John Conyers of Michigan doesn’t have enough signatures to appear on the Aug. 5 primary ballot, an elections official announced...
by Barrington M. Salmon Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Islamist rebels three weeks ago has frayed...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A controversy last week over potential funding linked to President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative...
By Carlton Brown Special to the NNPA from The Mississippi Link PERSPECTIVE “Our Negras are happy here in Mississippi. It’s the outside agitators causing the...
