[Global Post] [fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=hQFkHtrDBFs” splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hQFkHtrDBFs/maxresdefault.jpg”] After a long public debate and legal battle over the NYPD’s habit of stopping and frisking people on the street –...
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Stressing the importance of having job-training programs that work, President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered a “soup to nuts” review of federal...
[Fox Sports] JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Seahawks wide receiver Percy Harvin remembers walking up the tunnel, for a second time, during that New Orleans playoff game...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Colleges and universities are struggling with sex assaults on campus, even as they spend more time and...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With a largely uncooperative, highly-partisan Congress headed into a mid-term election, President Obama declared in his State...
[NBC News] NEW ORLEANS — Jury selection started on Monday in the public corruption trial of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who led the city during...
[Ebony] To their credit, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences didn’t give Black people any pretense that the show wasn’t going to piss a bunch of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In order to make sure no voter waits in line more than 30 minutes before casting...
RAPHAEL SATTER, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Documents leaked by former NSA contactor Edward Snowden suggest that spy agencies have a powerful ally in Angry Birds...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – George Zimmerman. Paula Deen. And, more recently, Seattle Seahawks star defensive back Richard Sherman. Just the mention of...
by Tony Best Special to the NNPA from the New York Carib News The Golden Globes, second only to the Academy Awards in importance and appeal...
CBC to Lead Fight for College Loans, Jobs, Judicial Posts by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper The Congressional Black Caucus. (Courtesy...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Thirty years ago, one year of tuition, room, and board at a nation’s four-year, degree-granting institution cost...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press SUMTER, South Carolina (AP) — A 14-year-old black boy executed nearly 70 years ago is finally getting another day in court, and...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic Kevin Hart is becoming the crown prince of comedy. These days, he’s the little, impish comedian who serves up big,...
JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer Five decades and $1 billion after an infamous racial episode made Little Rock, Ark., a national symbol of school segregation, the...
ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Top congressional negotiators raced to complete an agreement Monday on a bipartisan $1.1 trillion spending bill that would fund...
DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — NBC’s comic institution “Saturday Night Live,” criticized recently for a lack of diversity, said on Monday that...
[Huffington Post] Ann Coulter called Melissa Harris-Perry MSNBC’s “token” African-American on Monday, in response to the host’s apology to the Romney family. Harris-Perry came under fire recently...
[Raw Story] A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine this week found that aging was accelerated at the cellular level in African-American men who reported...
U.S. DISTRICT COURT — The family of Ramarley Graham, the unarmed teen gunned down by police in his own home, hope that a federal civil suit...
RALPH D. RUSSO, AP College Football Writer PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — After a regular season filled with blowout victories and easy fourth quarters, Jameis Winston and...
VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — Each weekday, the mother and father come to the same corner outside the county courthouse and spend hours camped out with cardboard...
MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce’s surprise album has sold surprisingly well: Her fifth solo effort sold more than 600,000 units in...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PRETORIA, South Africa – Most of the leaders and dignitaries who converged on this capital city last Monday...
