(USA Today) – The family of a Louisiana man who police say shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a squad car wants the...
JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lamont Jones and Keith Stephens stood 60 feet from each other, separated by four lanes of pavement...
KATHY MATHESON, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Busloads of tourists line up every day in Philadelphia to take photos with a statue of Rocky Balboa, the...
(Daily Mail) – She tied the knot with NBA star Dwyane Wade over the weekend. And Gabrielle Union certainly made sure she would feel like...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — Democrat Quinton Ross has represented a pretty safe district in the Alabama state Senate since 2002, when 72% of its voting-age...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – During a rousing, standing-room only town hall discussion dedicated to the shooting death of Michael...
By Hanqing Chen Special to the NNPA from ProPublica Protests have continued for more than a week since the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael...
HAVEN DALEY, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton broke nearly three weeks of silence Thursday on the fatal police shooting of an unarmed...
DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Diane Sawyer signed off as anchor of ABC’s “World News” on Wednesday, telling viewers that it has...
(Politico) – Three in four players in the National Football League agree with President Barack Obama’s remarks earlier this year that marijuana is less dangerous than...
by Saeed Shabazz Special to the NNPA from The Final Call NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) – Including Michael Brown, five unarmed Black men have been killed...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – At noon on Saturday, August 9, Michael Brown, 18, and his friend, Dorian Johnson, crossed paths with...
BRENDAN FARRINGTON, AP Political Writer FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — If there were any doubts that former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist would be accepted by Florida...
(The Washington Post) – Well, this could be fun. Oprah Winfrey will be playing a madam in Lee Daniels’s new Richard Pryor biopic, ET reported Tuesday. Apparently...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –Despite major advances to access to the ballot box nearly 50 years after the passage of Voting...
(CNN) — Could a newly released audio provide more clues on what led up to Michael Brown’s shooting death? The FBI has questioned a man who says he...
by Kenya Vaughn Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American “There is a passage in the scripture that says what the devil meant...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the aftermath of the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed, Black teenager by a...
ADAM GELLER, AP National Writer Stepping to the pulpit at Greater Grace Church — minutes from where a suburban St. Louis police officer shot and killed...
by Herb Boyd Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News Overwhelmed is a word that was repeatedly uttered by the family members...
(Boston Globe) – A 13-year-old girl blessed with charisma, confidence, and, as the ace of her baseball team, a repertoire of pitches even a Red Sox...
(The Washington Post) – In a recent post at Pacific Standard, I examined the relationship between the percent of African Americans in a city population and the...
FERGUSON, Mo. (The Washington Post) — Twelve days after the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager, six people were arrested. A bottle was thrown at police....
KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Rapper Gucci Mane was sentenced Wednesday to serve three years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to...
(Politico) – It’s a paradox of Barack Obama’s presidency: The first African-American to run the country finds himself in the tensest racial confrontation of his tenure...
