[Reuters] – Jury selection began on Tuesday in a Los Angeles civil trial that will revisit the checkered life and sudden death of superstar Michael Jackson...
by Alexis Taylor Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Proving their actions can be just rank as their name, The Onion, an online news source...
With 1.3 billion people in China, residents in urban areas live in high-rise apartments similar to this one in Beijing(Photo by Ann Ragland/NNPA). First grade students...
Some Apple followers have begun worrying that the company has lost the secret formula that made it so successful during the Steve Jobs era. But instead...
One day last October, more than 100 congressional staffers crammed into a room on the second floor of the Rayburn House Office Building to listen to...
The labor market is healing faster for immigrants than for U.S.-born workers as the growing economy favors those at the low and high ends of the...
Michael Jackson’s son, Prince Michael, stepped into a world his late father knew well, becoming a special correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. Mentored by the show’s Brooke...
Jermaine Dupri didn’t become the award-winning, veteran multi-million-dollar-making music producer he is without making some pivotal mistakes. As the president and CEO of So So Def...
Mississippi finally outlawed slavery. The Jackson Clarion Ledger: “There was an asterisk beside Mississippi. A note read: ‘Mississippi ratified the amendment in 1995, but because the...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will take up a case from Alabama next week to decide whether to strike down a key part of the Voting...
PALM CITY, Fla. — In a gym usually home to the Hyde Park Academy Thunderbirds, President Obama spoke about his own home late last week —...
Researchers found that the risk of having a criminal conviction by early adulthood increased by approximately 30 percent with every hour that children spent viewing television...
[youtube id=”KelDQj_6P7Y” width=”620″ height=”360″] By Matt Pearce February 18, 2013, 5:42 p.m. Rough flight. A 60-year-old business executive accused of drunkenly slapping a 2-year-old and referring...
The day’s light was fading when the SWAT officers decided they could wait no longer for Christopher Dorner to surrender. Dorner, the fired Los Angeles cop...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – For the third year in a row, Missouri ranks as the state with the highest homicide victimization...
National Black Chamber of Commerce Opposes Law By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNAP) – After hearing oral arguments earlier on whether an affirmative action...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Companies that fail to advertise with Black media are missing an opportunity to effectively reach nearly 43...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a new national campaign Monday to remove the stigma...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If Black voter turnout reverts to the level it was before Barack Obama was elected president of...
House Vote Against Holder ‘Highly Politicized’ By George E. Curry Editor-in-Chief NNPA News Service WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The House of Representatives vote to hold Attorney...
[Politico] It was bound to happen: First, there was the Obama Girl, aka Amber Lee Ettinger, who turned heads in 2008 with her seductive YouTube videos in praise...
[MSNBC] African-Americans are 25 percent more likely to die from cancer than white Americans are, and the reasons are numerous, including lower socio-economic status, poorer access to health care,...
(The Washington Post) For nearly a decade, Beth Jacobson lived inside the vast machinery of subprime mortgages that shook the nation’s economy. In sworn court testimony, she described watching loan...
