KEN RITTER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Five of B.B. King’s adult children visited the blues great one last time in private at a Las...
(Politico) – For the first time in the decade and a half that Gallup has been tracking Americans’ ideologies, the percentage of those identifying their...
(CBS News) – On the first day of her job, Attorney General Loretta Lynch was tasked with briefing the president on race riots in Baltimore, reports “CBS This...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A grand jury’s decision to indict all six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, who died of...
PAUL NEWBERRY, AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — J.R. Smith knocked down a tough 3-pointer, then another. Turning toward the fans, their heckling transformed to groans,...
EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The body of blues legend B.B. King will return next week to the Mississippi Delta where his...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Whites are moving back to the American city that came to epitomize white flight, even as blacks continue to...
STACY A. ANDERSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The family of civil rights activist Rosa Parks viewed some of her personal memorabilia for the first time...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The makeshift mid-street memorial that marked where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer last summer...
ANTONIO GONZALEZ, AP Basketball Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Down big at home, the Golden State Warriors went small. It turned out to make a huge...
I really hate getting nominated for @bet awards. They're so bogus. — AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) May 18, 2015 NEW YORK (UPI) – Shortly after Azealia Banks was...
(Bloomberg) – Six years after the recession ended, many U.S. states are hard pressed to balance budgets because of a sluggish recovery and their own...
JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — Four-year-old William Cole saw his father’s face and reached out to touch it during a jail visit....
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager...
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Maryland College Park’s School of...
KEN RITTER, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Blues legend B.B. King will be buried in Mississippi, but a public viewing and a private service for...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — President Barack Obama ended long-running federal transfers of some combat-style gear to local law enforcement on Monday in...
PHOENIX (AP) — A solicitation charge against Hall of Famer Warren Sapp, who was arrested during Super Bowl week on suspicion of assault and soliciting...
WASHINGTON (McClatchy) — A first-of-its-kind provision that prevents welfare recipients in Kansas from withdrawing more than $25 a day from an ATM might violate federal law,...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Contrary to the myth, though Black men are more likely to live apart from their children than...
(Salon) – Nine people have died after a shootout between rival motorcycle gangs in Waco on Sunday, when gunfire erupted in the parking lot of...
By Danny Bakewell Jr. Special to the NNPA from the LA Watts Times The Motown sound began with Berry Gordy as a dreamer in Detroit and...
(Slate) – President Obama appeared on a Georgetown-sponsored public policy panel Tuesday and, in addition to making everyone laugh a few times, he participated for about...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators of both parties worked Wednesday to revive trade legislation that’s a top priority for President Barack Obama, a...
RACHEL COHEN, AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The lawyer who investigated the New England Patriots insisted Tuesday that he found direct, not just circumstantial,...
