By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) – What do “Bring Back Our Girls,” “Justice for Trayvon” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” have in common?...
(Los Angeles Times) – The California Highway Patrol officer who was videotaped punching a woman on the 10 Freeway has been stripped of his duties...
(The Washington Post) – There are many ways to get celebrity activism wrong when it comes to a situation like the one that has emerged...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Twenty years after signing the “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,” the...
by Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry generated an instant headline...
by Shantella Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper “Any time you are considered a subculture, it’s important to have your own reward system. If...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police and protesters collided in the streets of Ferguson again late Monday, a day after the Missouri...
(Politico) – President Barack Obama really wanted to take a vacation. But then the world intervened. The president’s plan to snag two weeks off in Martha’s...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco said goodbye Thursday to Candlestick Park — the stadium where the city’s beloved Giants and 49ers celebrated some of...
(USA Today) – Halle Berry says that playing a woman with multiple personalities in Frankie & Alice was already challenging. Making one of the personalities a white racist named...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — Nearly two times a week in the United States, a white police officer killed a black person during a seven-year period...
MEMPHIS (Politico) — On one side of South Lauderdale Ave. sits the Foote Homes, among the last of the old federal housing projects that once proliferated...
FERGUSON, Mo. (New York Times) — In the five days since an unarmed young black man was fatally shot by a police officer here, the selective...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday appealed for “peace and calm” on the streets of a St....
by Kenya Vaughn Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American “I want to dedicate this next song to a big dreamer,” rapper Young...
FERGUSON, Mo. (USA Today) — Hopes for peace here after three nights of rioting were dashed when another demonstration in the wake of teenager Michael Brown’s...
LOS ANGELES (New York Times) — Peering through his camera at Robin Williams in 2012, the cinematographer John Bailey thought he glimpsed something not previously...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama says that while the shooting death of a Missouri teenager has prompted “strong...
KAREEM COPELAND, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston has the opportunity to accomplish what only one other player has achieved —...
(The Daily Beast) – If you’re a person of color hoping to get hired by a political campaign, here’s the ugly truth: You’ll probably get paid...
(St. Louis-Dispatch) – At about 1 a.m. Wednesday, a St. Louis County Police officer shot and critically wounded a man who police said pointed a handgun...
(USA Today) – As developments continue to unfold in the case of Michael Brown in St. Louis, details are emerging about the police shooting death of...
(USA Today) – President Obama reminded donors Monday night that another issue could be at stake in this year’s U.S. Senate elections: Control of the...
by Chris King Special to the NNPA from The St. Louis American ST. LOUIS — Jesse Jackson told The American he hopes that the U.S....
(NBC News) – Two court rulings may have finally marked the end of college athletes as amateurs, say experts. On Friday, a district court judge in...
