Honoring outstanding entrepreneurs and community leaders at the 2014 Urban League of Greater Atlanta's EOD Awards. See who took home the Entrepreneurship award!
TIM REYNOLDS, AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — LeBron James was running the gamut of emotions Thursday when he arrived at the arena that he called...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic As 2014 draws to a close it’s a perfect time to reflect on noteworthy films, strong performances and the strides...
The Associated Press Key factors as the 2016 presidential race begins to take shape: ___ DEMOCRATS’ ELECTORAL COLLEGE BASELINE: Democrats have won the same group of...
(New York Times) – William Zonicle did what all the job experts advise. He majored in a growing field like health care. He studied hard and...
(Time) – The way to honor those who defend our liberties with their lives — as did my father and grandfather — is not to...
STEPHEN BRAUN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — While the Senate report on the CIA’s interrogation program and the spy agency’s official response clash on almost every...
(Politico) – Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says his biggest challenge will be righting the course of Congress, adding — in a swipe at outgoing...
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rocker Jon Bon Jovi donned a New York Police Department T-shirt on stage. Well-wishers delivered home-baked cookies...
LOS ANGELES (USA Today) — Now this is how you ace every platform. Pharrell Williams served up an innately cool 2014 as our impresario of music, television,...
(USA Today) – Defying Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plea for a moratorium on protests over police conduct, hundreds of demonstrators in New York City briefly...
(Politico) – Bill de Blasio, like his progressive political idol Barack Obama, is finding out that you can’t do the New Politics if you don’t...
by Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News In no way should the names of Michael Brown and Eric Garner be...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic On the surface, there is absolutely no reason to update the classic Broadway show Annie, which was already adapted for the...
(Politico) – President Barack Obama’s pick to be the next attorney general is winning over Republicans. Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent Ronald Lewis was standing on a street with his brother, who was selling drugs. When police were approaching, Lewis warned his...
JIMMY GOLEN, AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics traded point guard Rajon Rondo to Dallas on Thursday night, cutting ties with the last...
(NPR) – The Secret Service must both change the way it trains agents and hire more of them, according to a panel that reviewed the...
HOPE YEN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government isn’t fully prepared to handle a nuclear terrorist attack or a large-scale natural catastrophe, lacks effective...
(St. Louis Public Radio) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, along with its national voting rights division, has sued the Ferguson-Florissant School District...
(The Guardian) – New Jersey officials hope the thaw in diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba will make it easier to extradite a former Black Panther...
CATHERINE LUCEY, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Liberal activists eager to draft Sen. Elizabeth Warren into a run for president are working the ground...
JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Gross spent five years wasting away in a Cuban prison, losing hope that he would ever be free...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — More than 70 years after South Carolina sent a 14-year-old black boy to the electric chair in...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — President Obama on Wednesday ordered the restoration of full diplomatic relations with Cuba and the opening of an embassy in...
