By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights groups, labor organizer and their allies are stepping up pressure on Congress to pass legislation...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Election-year legislation to resume long-term jobless benefits is headed to the House, where a small band of dissident...
[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution] Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize, his sons, Martin Luther King III and Dexter Scott King say...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a concerted election-year push to draw attention to women’s wages, President Barack Obama signed...
JIM O’CONNELL, AP Basketball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Fab Five came onto the national basketball landscape like a thunder dunk. You had to notice...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Longtime journalist and educator Charles Sumner “Chuck” Stone Jr, one of the founders of the National Association of Black Journalists, has...
NEW YORK (AP) — The fashion and beauty industry’s love affair with Lupita Nyong’o continues: The Oscar winner has been named the new face for Lancome....
JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights leaders and representatives from the retail industry met Thursday with New York...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – For the first time in 42 years, the United Negro College Fund has altered its signature phrase....
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The wealth gap between African Americans and Whites has expanded in recent years and is not likely...
DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruling Wednesday erasing a long-standing limit on campaign donations will allow a small number of...
JOSEPH WHITE, AP Sports Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The contrast couldn’t have been greater for DeSean Jackson. In a matter of days, he went from unwanted...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After facing a rocky start and chorus of naysayers who declared his health care law a failure, President Barack...
CONNIE CASS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not too late to get covered. A few routes remain open for those who missed the health care...
JOE MANDAK, Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Three white officers accused in a federal civil rights lawsuit of beating a black performing arts high school student...
AFRO Sports Desk Face-off by Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley Special to the NNPA from The Afro-American Newspaper After an abrupt exile from the Philadelphia...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After intense internal fighting, court battles and competing board of directors that have characterized Sacramento, Calif. Kevin...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Even before they typically learn to read, Black preschoolers – some as young as 4 years old...
Kwasi Enin, a 17-year old student at William Floyd High School in Mastic Beach, N.Y., has accomplished a rare feat: he has been accepted to each...
TIM DAHLBERG, AP Sports Writer They’re battling in courtrooms, and could one day meet over a bargaining table. About the only things the two sides in...
NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after the publication of “Gone With the Wind,” Mammy is finally getting a back story. Simon & Schuster imprint Atria announced...
BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The defining moment of a bizarre election season in the nation’s capital wasn’t provided by Mayor Vincent Gray or...
NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey is taking a self-help show on the road to eight cities this fall, a two-day event giving fans a chance...
Special to the NNPA from the LA Watts Times As part of a hearing to investigate data security following breaches at large commercial retailers, Congresswoman Maxine...
KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York state has the most segregated public schools in the nation, with many black and Latino students...
