By Rushawn Walters (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow) The body of the two-year-old boy who was pulled away by an alligator at the Walt Disney World resort hotel...
By Tatyana Hopkins (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow, Michigan Chronicle) The lawyers of wrongfully convicted Davontae Sanford said it was clear from the beginning that he was innocent...
By Barrington M. Salmon (The Washington Informer, NNPA Member) Three days before the District of Columbia’s Democratic Presidential Primary, President Bill Clinton came to the nation’s...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President of the NNPA) History is more than the memory and documentation of the past. We all learn from the trials,...
By Victoria Jones (NNPA/DTU Journalism Program) The case of 20-year-old Stanford swimmer Brock Turner has been a hot topic across the nation since the public found...
The Cincinnati Herald Staff (The Cincinnati Herald, NNPA Member) The family of a 3-year-old boy who fell into a Cincinnati Zoo gorilla’s compound Saturday, is being...
[WASHINGTONINFORMER.COM] “The Greatest” is battling in perhaps the most challenging fight of his life. Boxing legend and three-time world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali has been hospitalized...
[THEROOT.COM] Cassandra Quin Butts, the former Deputy White House Counsel and nominee to the Ambassadorship to the Bahamas, died suddenly on Thursday. She was 50 years...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) Election day November 8, 2016 will be the first Presidential election in 50 years without the full...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire National News Editor) When the National Museum of African American History and Culture opens in September, Lonnie Bunch, the museum’s...
[MSNBC.COM] One of the six officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray was found not guilty on all counts in Baltimore Monday. Baltimore...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributor) In 1976, then-President Gerald Ford delivered the annual “State of the Union Address,” virtually ignoring the plight of...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire National News Editor) The Black unemployment rate ticked down from 8.9 percent in March to 8.8 percent in April and...
By Howard University News Service WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told the graduates of one of the nation’s leading historically Black universities that America is “a...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) President Barack Obama dropped his microphone at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, acknowledging what everyone had...
[CHICAGO DEFENDER] In a shocking development, and one that probably angers The View’s vapid and air-headed co-host Raven-Symone, slave revolutionary Harriet Tubman, who freed up to...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA National News Editor) Sidnee King, a 20 year-old broadcast journalism student at Howard University, admitted that she was nervous about her summer...
By Joan H. Allen (Associate Publisher, Daily Challenge) It was a packed house at the National Action Network’s 25th Anniversary Convention’s Plenary Session for Democratic Presidential...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) The Republican National Committee (RNC) is refuting claims that a number of key African-American employees were either...
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By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire National News Editor) Former Republican presidential nominee and famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson said that he trusts Donald Trump to address...
(CBSNEWS.COM) In her farewell letter as she was leaving to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Jaelyn Young told her family she was...
[fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=_6K49zBT-n4″ splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_6K49zBT-n4/sddefault.jpg”] By Chris B. Bennett Special to the NNPA News Wire from The Seattle Medium On Monday, February 22, the Seattle Police Department (SPD)...
By Chris B. Bennett Special to the NNPA News Wire from The Seattle Medium In one of the most dynamic displays of civic engagement seen in...
By Sarafina Wright Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Washington Informer For many elders who participated in the Black Liberation Movement of the ’60s...
