Excerpted from Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine. Out now from Graywolf Press. (Slate) – One Sunday afternoon, drinking an Arnold Palmer, watching the 2009 Women’s U.S....
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Reforms proposed to the Child Tax Credit by the Center for American Progress could help to reduce...
MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, in his first court appearance on federal racketeering charges, proclaimed his innocence Monday and accused...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Straight Outta Compton” is a box office force. The N.W.A biopic earned $60.2 million in its opening weekend — even more...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Julian Bond, a founding member and communications director of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and immediate...
By Jerry Ford II Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times On the day the family of Sandra Bland filed a lawsuit against the...
JOHN WAWROW, AP Sports Writer PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Without mentioning New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith — the player he sucker punched — by name,...
(Vanity Fair) – Whether or not the endless rumors about Idris Elba taking over as James Bond ever come true, we really are, finally, getting a black Bond....
TOM FOREMAN Jr., Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — As prosecutors attempted to discredit him, a white Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer completed nearly six hours of testimony...
(Salon) – The brutal and iniquitous treatment African-Americans suffer at the hands of their criminal justice system has been a chief topic of conversation in the...
(New York Times) – On July 20, 2006, the United States Senate voted to renew the Voting Rights Act for 25 more years. The vote was unanimous,...
(The Huffington Post) – The Chicago Tribune apparently decided the approaching 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina was a great hook for an op-ed extolling the cleansing...
(The Washington Post) – This has become the summer of the political outsider, as a cast of interlopers upend and dominate the presidential nominating process in...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic Warning: This isn’t some chump change Sundance indie movie about the rap group NWA. Nor is it a should-have-gone-straight-to-DVD afterthought...
(NBC News) – An Ohio woman whose death in police custody is being investigated, may have been improperly medicated by authorities, newly released documents show. Ralkina...
EMILY SCHMALL FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A police officer fired after fatally shooting an unarmed black college football player during a suspected burglary at a...
(UPI) – As Floyd Mayweather prepares for his September fight against Andre Berto, he recently was asked about the sport’s greatest fighters. Topping Mayweather’s list of...
KEENE, N.H. (Politico) — Hillary Clinton met with five Black Lives Matter activists behind closed doors following her campaign event here on Tuesday evening, after the...
(Salon) – According to multiple media reports, a group of at least four or five heavily armed white men showed up on the streets of Ferguson,...
ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Terrence Howard agreed to a 2012 divorce settlement with his ex-wife after she threatened to leak details...
by EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — An unarmed college football player tried to smash through a locked glass door in a North Texas car...
(Los Angeles Times) – Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Tuesday a measure that prohibits secret grand juries to weigh in on cases involving excessive or...
STEVE REED, AP Sports Writer SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Cam Newton is defending his role in a scuffle with Carolina Panthers’ teammate Josh Norman that put...
(Reuters) – A speeding Wal-Mart truck driver who had been awake for 28 hours was held responsible on Tuesday for a 2014 highway crash that left...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, civil rights groups and...
