TED BRIDIS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration set a new record again for more often than ever censoring government files or outright denying...
ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — At least five dissidents were free Thursday in what a leading human rights advocate said...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration issued guidelines Monday that restrict the ability of federal law enforcement agencies to profile on the...
Special to the NNPA via THE WASHINGTON INFORMER WASHINGTON (The Washington Informer)—U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced Thursday that Africa.com CEO Teresa Clarke is among...
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Matt Apuzzo, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times)—President Obama will nominate Loretta E. Lynch, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn,...
(Politico) – Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Barack Obama, had surgery in Chicago last week for a spinal condition and will return to Washington on...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist To many people, especially Blacks, Obama’s election as president in 2008 was a dream come true. According to the American Heritage...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist Obstruction by congressional Republicans has been a major obstacle for President Obama for four of his six years in office. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt in a document dispute tied to a...
Thomas Beaumont, ASSOCIATED PRESS OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — President Barack Obama gave Republicans a gift of sorts by confirming their midterm election narrative that...
(Politico) – A House committee is asking a federal judge to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of court for failing to comply with...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist During the past six years, some Republicans and conservatives have described President Obama and his administration as totally incompetent. I have...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Black American leadership too often is taken for granted. Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation from office not...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist After being confirmed as the nation’s first African American U.S. attorney general, Eric H. Holder, Jr. wasted little time putting...
(The Washington Post) – From his first days on the job, it was clear that Attorney General Eric Holder was unbound by the racial constraints that...
Jim Kuhnhenn and Erica Werner, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — In the face of an unyielding Congress, President Barack Obama will act on his own...
(Politico) – President Barack Obama’s administration has agreed to make public edited versions of a memo one of his judicial nominees wrote finding it lawful to...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Some of the responses by the Republicans and their friends to the Iran nuclear deal have been nothing short...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The central issue that should concern us when it comes to the chemical weapons crisis in Syria is not...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Alright, team, enough is enough. During the entire first term of the Obama administration, Black America—for the most part—gave the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist When I saw in the news that Vice President Biden had gone out of his way to assure the...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Four years ago, President Obama made history by becoming the first Black president in the history of the U.S. I...