JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer The harrowing historical epic “12 Years a Slave” and the con-artist caper “American Hustle” led the 71st annual Golden Globes with...
By Everett L. Glenn NNPA Special Contributor LAST OF A 3-PART SERIES (As a sports agent, Attorney Everett Glenn has negotiated contracts for some...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief SOWETO, South Africa (NNPA) – President Barack Obama described Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first Black elected president, as...
CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors are considering whether to move forward with domestic violence charges against George Zimmerman...
[AP] The White House says President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will travel to South Africa next week to pay respects to Nelson Mandela....
[AP] JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans erupted in song, dance and tears on Friday in public and emotional celebrations of the life of Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who bridged this country’s...
[CNN] Nelson Mandela’s willingness to forgive and forget helped peacefully end an era of white domination in his native South Africa. But as news of his...
DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Volkswagen turns off some employees’ email 30 minutes after their shifts end. Goldman Sachs is urging junior staff to...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama announced a new initiative at the National Institutes of Health in pursuit of a cure...
[The Washington Post] Since World War II, there’s been a strikingly consistent pattern in American politics: The economy does much better when a Democrat is in...
Pros Go from Rags-to-Riches-Back-to-Rags By Everett L. Glenn NNPA Special Contributor SECOND OF A 3-PART SERIES (As a sports agent, Attorney Everett Glenn has negotiated contracts...
[Orlando Sentinel] George Zimmerman was acquitted at his racially charged murder trial in July. He won but at a very steep cost. Two months ago, he received...
[The Washington Post] “I’m not a particularly ideological person,” President Obama told a group of Democratic donors at a fundraiser in Seattle on Sunday night. Republican...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the American electorate becomes more diverse, new voting laws threaten to disenfranchise young Black and Latino...
By Everett L. Glenn NNPA Special Contributor FIRST OF A 3-PART SERIES (As a sports agent, Attorney Everett Glenn has negotiated contracts for some of the...
Joseph Paul Franklin’s Murder Victims Included Blacks, Jews and Interracial couples by Zachary Lester and Ron Taylor Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Joseph...
[The Washington Post] The Senate vote Thursday to lower the barriers for presidential nominations should make it easier for President Obama to accomplish key second-term priorities,...
[The Washington Post] 1. The change the Senate made today is small but consequential: The filibuster no longer applies to judicial or executive-branch nominees. It still...
[USA Today] MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama’s parole board voted Thursday to grant posthumous pardons to men known as the Scottsboro Boys from a 1931 rape case. The Alabama Board...
[San Jose Mercury News] SAN JOSE — First, his white roommates nicknamed him “Three-fifths,” referring to the way the government once counted blacks as just a...
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Monday stymied President Barack Obama’s latest judicial nominee, leaving one of the nation’s top appellate courts shorthanded and escalating the endless confirmation...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he’s considering changing his chamber’s rules to make it harder for...
MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman is once again a free man after an arrest on criminal charges — but his freedom...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times All eyes have been on the city of Houston over the past week...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When lawmakers ratified the 15th Amendment in 1870, protecting voting rights for Blacks, opponents of the law...
