by Todd Luck Special to the NNPA from the Winston-Salem Chronicle African American Vietnam Vets share their stories to the Wake Forest English class A group...
[Hollywood Reporter] Chadwick Boseman is starring as the iconic singer in the drama directed by Tate Taylor. Dan Aykroyd and Jill Scott have been cast in Get On Up, Universal...
[USA Today] Food stamp benefits will be cut to more than 47 million Americans starting Friday as a temporary boost to the federal program comes to...
(Reuters) – Bankrolled by powerful outside interests, what began as a dispute aired in the pages of a town’s local newspaper next week moves to the...
by JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert M. Bell was 16 years old when he recruited classmates to join a sit-in at a downtown...
by ANTHONY McCARTNEY, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Troubled singer Chris Brown is heading to rehab. A representative for the R&B star announced Tuesday that...
[CBS News] The Institute of Medicine and National Research Council report that in many sports, high school athletes have a higher risk of getting a concussion...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate negotiators have begun talks on crafting a compromise farm bill, including cuts to the food...
by LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Is donning blackface to dress up as a favorite TV character ever OK for Halloween? How about...
by NESHA STARCEVIC, AP Sports Writer ISTANBUL (AP) — The way the season has gone for Serena Williams, there was only one fitting way for it...
ANTHONY McCARTNEY JESSICA GRESKO WASHINGTON (AP) — Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Chris Brown was freed from custody Monday after facing a judge on a charge that...
CHRIS TOMLINSON, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge determined Monday that new Texas abortion restrictions place an unconstitutional burden on women seeking to...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Last week, President Barack Obama said what many people who visited healthcare.gov to browse and buy affordable...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson was released from jail Monday after serving nearly two years of a four-year sentence. Conrad...
by Michael McGee Special to the NNPA from The Dallas Examiner Sharon Locklin and Roy Williams discuss the case against Brian Cloninger. Photo by MIKE MCGEE...
(Reuters) – Bank of America Corp was found liable for fraud on Wednesday over defective mortgages sold by its Countrywide unit, a major win for the...
(Reuters) – The White House sought to limit the political damage from the troubled rollout of the government’s healthcare website on Wednesday as Republicans increased the...
[The Washington Post] In the wake of the government shutdown and declining Republican popularity, Democrats are growing more optimistic about winning a majority in the House...
by EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi breaks ground Thursday on side-by-side museums that are expected to break ground of their own...
by DAVID BRANDT, AP Sports Writer GRAMBLING, La. (AP) — Naquan Smith and his Grambling football teammates have no regrets about a nearly weeklong boycott that...
by FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Slavery in the United States was once a roaring success whose wounds still afflict the country...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After a little more than two weeks, things have finally gotten back to normal in the nation’s...
BALTIMORE (AP) — The NAACP has selected a former House of Representatives clerk as an interim president and CEO while the organization seeks a new leader....
John Boyd led fight for Black farmers By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – For decades, Black farmers fought the United States Department of...
By Barrington M. Salmon Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer WASHINGTON – Professor Ron Walters would have been right at home at a two-day conference marking...
