By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Baltimore’s curfew has been lifted, the officers have been charged, and Freddie Gray has been laid to...
(The Washington Post) – Shaun King was furious. The author and life coach turned activist has been one of the most prominent online voices in...
ARON HELLER, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — When Israel secretly airlifted waves of Ethiopian Jews in the 1980s and 1990s, saving them from war and famine...
BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Months before Freddie Gray died of the broken neck he suffered during what Baltimore’s top...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — During a training course on defending against knife attacks, a young Salt Lake City police officer asked a question: “How close...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On the same day that Loretta Lynch was sworn-in as the 83rd United States Attorney General,...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent BALTIMORE (NNPA) – Friday afternoon was clear and cool enough for a light jacket, although most people wore T-shirts...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NEWS ANALYSIS WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Three extremely qualified African American women are at the forefront of making certain that...
(The Washington Post) – The City of Cleveland has asked the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot and killed while he played with a toy...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Freddie Gray, 25, was racially profiled and then chased down by the Baltimore police officers. He subsequently...
Aaron Heller, ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s ceremonial president said Monday that an outbreak of violent protests by Ethiopian Jews has “exposed an open,...
N.D.B. Connolly, THE NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE (The New York Times) — In the wake of the Michael Brown shooting and subsequent unrest in Ferguson, Mo., commentators...
(Politico) – A casual CNN viewer would have had good reason this morning to think that the rioting, looting and arson that took place yesterday...
Yamiche Alcindor, USA TODAY BALTIMORE (USA Today) — Thursday night, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts walked alongside dozens of officers asking people to go home...
Juliet Linderman and Amanda Lee Myers, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s top prosecutor announced criminal charges Friday against all six officers suspended after a...
BALTIMORE (USA Today) – Lifelong Baltimore resident Shawny Reese didn’t know Freddie “Pepper” Gray and doesn’t know for sure why he ran when he saw...
Atlanta (CNN) – A fake name on a Facebook post can still get you in real trouble, especially when you’re threatening to shoot every white...
(Politico) – Hillary Clinton declared Wednesday in New York that there’s “something wrong” with criminal justice in America. But a lot of what Clinton finds...
(The Washington Post) – The Virginia medical examiner’s office has ruled that the death of a woman at the Fairfax County jail in February was...
(Salon) Dear White America, It is somewhat strange to address this to you, given that I strongly identify with many aspects of your culture and...
As our country sits enraged about numerous moments of injustice, racial tension and police brutality, we still have to get up, go to work and “wear...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Urging Americans to “do some soul-searching,” President Barack Obama expressed deep frustration Tuesday over recurring black deaths at the...
AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Schools reopened across the city and tensions seemed to ease Wednesday after Baltimore made...
