“Mandatory Minimums: New Opportunities for Criminal Justice Reform” by Linda Poulson Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Mandatory minimum sentencing is an out-of-touch, unfair...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – During his speech at the 45th Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) Phoenix Awards Dinner, President Barack Obama...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – At a reception during the 45th Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) Annual Legislative Conference, the National Newspaper...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times “…The justice that we seek will not come from these courts, it will...
(Bleacher Report) – Michael Jordan made a lot of money in his NBA career. His signature brand Nike shoes have made him a lot more money,...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that President Barack Obama’s health care law unjustly burdens religiously affiliated employers by forcing them to...
(CBS Chicago) – Former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. will complete his sentence for misuse of campaign funds this Sunday. He’s been finishing out the 30-month term,...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (The Washington Post) — Joey Meek, a friend of admitted Charleston shooter Dylann Roof, pleaded not guilty Friday to two federal charges related to...
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (USA Today) — The attorney representing Lawrence Phillips told USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday that the former star running back was acting in self-defense...
(The Washington Post) – When Fox Lake police officer Charles Joseph Gliniewicz was found mortally wounded along a forested road in this sleepy northern Illinois town, his fellow...
STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amid all the bombast in the Republican race for president, Ben Carson comes across more like a whisper. He...
by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times The highly anticipated trial of police brutality victim and former baseball star Robbie...
ROB MAADDI, AP Pro Football Writer Relax, Buffalo. Take it easy, St. Louis. Don’t print those Super Bowl tickets just yet. Tyrod Taylor, Travis Kelce and...
(Politico) – Ben Carson’s steady rise in the polls continued Tuesday, with the retired neurosurgeon running nearly even with Donald Trump in the latest CBS News/New York...
(Rolling Stone) – Terrence Howard is standing in front of a mirror inside his extra-deluxe, penthouse-level Chicago apartment, looking at himself looking back. You could say...
(Salon) – In a move sure to catapult him to the top of Bill O’Reilly’s most favored list, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson blasted Black Lives Matter...
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A judge denied bail Monday for a white former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the...
JIM SALTER, Associated Press JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The co-chairman of a reform panel formed after the Ferguson police shooting of Michael...
BRUCE SMITH, Associated Press JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A judge said Friday he will rule “as expeditiously as possible” on whether to...
(New York Post) – The cop accused of body-slamming former tennis star James Blake during a mistaken arrest has a checkered past that includes five civilian complaints in...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Friday that she will not seek re-election next year, nearly five months after the...
(BuzzFeed) – While defending Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis’s refusal to issue marriage licenses out of her religious opposition to same-sex marriage, Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that...
(Salon) – One of the more enduring tropes on the religious right is this notion that America is a Christian nation, or at the very least...
