[Media Matters] Conservative media ran dishonest headlines suggesting that the Obama administration is attempting to reduce minority births when it is actually trying to reduce teenage pregnancies....
[Sacramento Bee] Kevin Johnson on Wednesday was installed as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, becoming the first Sacramento mayor to lead the organization in...
[ProPublica] Though James Dent could watch Central High School’s homecoming parade from the porch of his faded-white bungalow, it had been years since he’d bothered. But...
PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Deep-pocketed donors are turning over multimillion-dollar checks to influence November’s elections, and the sums raised by the national...
DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Survivors, first responders and relatives of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the anniversary Tuesday with tributes...
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — People with old Social Security debts are getting a reprieve — for now. The Social Security Administration had been...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In 1965, Tuskegee Institute in Alabama was a hotbed for social protest and bred students passionate about...
OutKast reunited for the first time in several years this past weekend at the famed Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival in Indio, CA. The...
DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Survivors, first responders and family members of those killed came together Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the Boston...
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republicans eyeing the 2016 White House race battered President Barack Obama’s health care law and nicked each other...
BILL DRAPER, Associated Press OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Kansas prosecutors filed state-level murder charges Tuesday against the white supremacist accused in shootings that left three...
[The Washington Post] President Obama made history in 2008 as the first African American president in U.S. history. But according to data in a fascinating new Pew...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after hailing the Civil Rights Act as a lasting legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency, President Barack...
FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — With the announcement that Stephen Colbert will be the new host of CBS’ “Late Show,” his fans...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) – With civil rights legends Andrew Young, John Lewis, Julian Bond and Jesse Jackson looking on, President...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, TEXAS (NNPA) – Former President Bill Clinton praised President Lyndon B. Johnson for signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act...
[Chicago Sun-Times] Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has been moved from a federal prison in North Carolina to a minimum-security prison camp in Montgomery, Ala.,...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Barack Obama was 2 years old when Lyndon Baines Johnson sat in the East Room of the White...
PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press STORRS, Conn. (AP) — The partying started Monday night on the UConn campus and spilled into Tuesday. And rightly so. It was...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic You know what they say, “Birds with blue feathers have to stick together!” In this spirited and very sweet sequel...
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Several big corporations have reaped millions of dollars from “Obamacare” even as they support GOP candidates who vow to...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have derailed an election-year Democratic bill curbing paycheck discrimination against women. The bill’s rejection was widely expected,...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite great progress that grew out of the Civil Rights Movement, “a web of stubborn obstacles remains”...
JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Singer Chris Brown’s assault case is going forward after a judge in Washington on Monday rejected a request to...
JIM O’CONNELL, AP Basketball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — It’s not that Kevin Ollie looked uncomfortable sitting on a stool in front of the Connecticut bench....
