[LOS ANGELES TIMES] WASHINGTON – Aaron Alexis, the gunman who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday before being fatally shot by law enforcement...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A new report confirms the old saw: The rich are getting richer. According to a report titled,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Speaking to a war-weary nation Tuesday night, President Barack Obama asked Congress to postpone a vote authorizing...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After repeatedly praising Dr. Martin Luther King., Jr., for leading a movement in the 1950s and...
Don't miss the 2013 West Coast Expo! Job fairs, youth business camps, health screenings, food, and entertainment await you at the LA Convention Center on Sept...
Hundreds rallied at Magic Johnson Park for peace, honoring Trayvon Martin and demanding an end to violence. Peace, unity, and healing were the calls to action.
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Voting Rights Act is down, but not out and civil rights leaders joined President Obama and...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – One of the primary goals of the 1963 March on Washington was finding or creating jobs for...
Witness the "Weight A Minute" fitness competition from the West Coast Expo 2013. See who reigned supreme!
Idris Elba stars as Nelson Mandela in this epic tale of a man who fought for freedom and reconciliation. Experience his incredible journey in "Mandela: Long...
Snoop Dogg brought the Snoop Youth Football League to an early screening of "Turbo"! See the Doggfather and his crew enjoy the animated flick.
Dead souls run amok! See Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds team up in the supernatural action-adventure "R.I.P.D.
Los Angeles (CNN) — Michael Jackson traveled with what amounted to a mini-clinic and an anesthesiologist who used a surgical anesthetic to put the singer to sleep...
[REUTERS] The ranks of lobbyists are growing in Washington again as Congress flirts with a possible overhaul of the complex U.S. tax code. After declining for...
[LA Times] Hip-hop star Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine are donating $70 million to USC for a new academy that they say will give...
[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...
