KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Not surprisingly, the legalization of marijuana in Colorado has reduced pot arrests, but a newly released study says it...
(The Grio) – Paula Deen is returning to cable TV, after a 22-month hiatus brought on by controversy after she used racial slurs. On Wednesday, Evine...
(ESPN) – The money that will be generated by the welterweight title unification fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao — already expected to...
(Politico) – Nancy Pelosi is in the market for a new successor. The California Democrat had a favored recruit in Rep. Chris Van Hollen, but...
CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans from sharply conservative House districts have won recent elections by promising to “never compromise,” and now some Democrats...
(The Grio) – George Zimmerman is speaking out for the first time since the Department of Justice cleared him of civil rights violations. The message...
DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police officers initiated stop, question and frisk encounters at a much higher rate last summer than their New...
(SB Nation) – Your school’s athletic program is probably known either for being a football school or a men’s basketball school, sometimes vacillating based on the...
(Reuters) – Congress has subpoenaed the emails of “close to a dozen” people who worked in the State Department for Hillary Clinton when she was...
(AllHipHop) – Lil’ Wayne is reportedly writing a tell-all book and revealing that Drake once betrayed him. TMZ reports that Weezy is shopping around a...
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama told Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that Washington would “reassess” its options on U.S.-Israel relations and Middle East diplomacy after the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With no federal unemployment insurance and rapidly disappearing state coverage, the percentage of people benefiting from...
by Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As Eric Holder ended his tenure as U.S. Attorney General, he said, “The troubling reality is...
(ESPN) – The agent for Adrian Peterson said Wednesday night that the Minnesota Vikings have no plans to release the running back. Ben Dogra told multiple news outlets that Vikings...
(Ebony.com) – FOX’s hit show, Empire, is getting bigger by the week. This is evidenced by the millions of viewers that tune in every Wednesday to view the...
(The Washington Post) – Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) invoked a famous African American woman to make a point about the delay in confirming an African...
(ABC News) – The state is investigating whether excessive force was used during the arrest of a 20-year-old black University of Virginia student after he attempted...
(Daily Mail) – A former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who now lives in Belize, alongside the very race of people he fought to...
MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Mary J. Blige performed for a feverish crowd Tuesday night at the Samsung Supper Club in an...
JOHN KEKIS, AP Sports Writer SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim will retire in three years and the university’s athletic director has resigned,...
TED BRIDIS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration set a new record again for more often than ever censoring government files or outright denying...
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A third round of testing will help to determine whether an envelope addressed to the White House does indeed...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Researchers studying the affects of public policy on the racial wealth gap estimated that the...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A growing body of research indicates that Black people pay more attention to local news and...
(SB Nation) – Tiger Woods had the golf world on the edge of its collective seat on Friday as he waited until almost the last possible...
