Hyung-Jin Kim, ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea blamed its recent Internet outage on the United States on Saturday and hurled racially...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist One of the many questions that hover over President Obama’s historic breakthrough in ending the U.S. government’s half-century-long Cold...
Aaron Blake, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—A significant majority of Americans think race relations in the United States are bad, and race issues appear as...
Jan Ransom and Bill Hutchinson, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS BLADENBORO, N.C. (New York Daily News)—The mysterious hanging of a black North Carolina teen took new...
Dave Boyer, THE WASHINGTON TIMES WASHINGTON (The Washington Times)—Before flying off to Hawaii for a two-week vacation, President Obama said Friday that most blacks understand...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist You can evaluate the quality of life in a society by the way it treats its children. Too many...
By john a. powell NNPA Guest Columnist Thousands recently took to the streets in protest and outrage following a Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to...
(BET) – Barack Obama – not the president, but the man – has a dream: his children will be viewed as individuals and judged not by the...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — As crowds of people staged “die-ins” across the country last week to protest the deaths of unarmed black men at the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist An African American friend of mine keeps asking, in utter amazement, how it is not obvious that there was...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist How did we let it get so out of hand? The number of people we have incarcerated in this...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist “I can’t breathe,” gasped Eric Garner, again and again and again. “I can’t breathe,” he said as several police officers...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist From nearly the moment he was attacked by a New York City police officer July 18, the world has,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is prescribing time and vigilance to tackle problems as entrenched in American society as racism and bias. He also...
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Football Union banned a club player for three matches on Friday for showing an offensive gesture to fans who racially...
Gillian Mohney, ABC NEWS (ABC News)—Two hashtags with stories of alleged racial bias by police have gone viral in the wake of a decision by...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the aftermath of a Black teen being killed in Ferguson, Mo., former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In the wake of Ferguson and a series of young Black male deaths at the hands of official law enforcement...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Some synonyms of the word “callous” are: heartless, unfeeling, unmerciful, cruel, and inhumane. A mid-November poll by the Gallup organization...
White Americans feel like they are being singled out because of the color of their skin rather than any actions they’ve taken. That’s how black...
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — The violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri, reflect simmering U.S. tensions over racial discrimination that could undermine the country’s stability,...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist How Can I Dump my Sister? Hey Ms. Alma, I’m getting married and I want everything to be perfect. We’re getting...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist It’s been almost 50 years since I lived in Tuscaloosa, Ala. I go back from time to time, but not...
Jackson Connor, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—The latest installment of CNN’s “Black in America” documentary series will focus on how the lives of young, black men...
Robert Mackey, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Hundreds of Dutch citizens plan to don blackface this weekend for parades in honor of St. Nicholas,...