By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson recently filed for bankruptcy and testified in court that despite his flashy public...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist During the last seven years we’ve seen our nation go from an economically challenged state of affairs to one...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Donald Trump, the blowhard mogul masquerading as presidential candidate, has once again discovered the problem with trying to be...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Some people are now saying what was really obvious to me before President Barack H. Obama was re-elected...
Brandon Bailey, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jody Kearns doesn’t like to spend time obsessing about her Parkinson’s disease. The 56-year-old dietitian from...
Jon Swartz, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — We need to raise the bar on how we talk about diversity in tech. A...
Martha Waggoner, ASSOCIATED PRESS GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The Rev. William Barber walks gingerly with a cane, in a hunched-over posture, yet here he is...
Nicole Hensley, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS CLEVELAND (The New York Daily News) — About a dozen people leaving the first-ever Black Lives Matter conference...
DULUTH, Ga. (ETOnline.com) — Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of late music legend Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown, died on July 26, surrounded by her family,...
Julie Pace, ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — President Barack Obama mixed blunt messages to Kenya’s leaders on gay rights, corruption and counterterrorism Saturday with...
Karen Attiah, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — “All of these police brutality videos on my feed are making me sick,” a black male...
Julie Greenberg, WIRED (Wired.com) — If you don’t like to broadcast where you’ve been by “checking in” on social media but still want to remember the places you’ve...
Nellie Andreeva, DEADLINE (Deadline.com) — Emmett Till was only 14 when the black teen was brutally murdered after allegedly flirting with a white woman in Mississippi...
Eric D. Williams, ESPN (ESPN) — A Pro Football Hall of Fame policy will prevent members of Junior Seau’s family from speaking at the deceased...
Bill Barrow, ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENVILLE, South Carolina (AP) — In her second bid for the presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton is discussing “systemic racism” and making...
David Montgomery, THE NEW YORK TIMES HEMPSTEAD, Tex. (The New York Times) — The Texas sheriff whose policies have come under intense criticism in the aftermath...
Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY HEMPSTEAD, Texas (USA Today) — Mourners gathered on Saturday to lay Sandra Bland to rest, as questions about the circumstances of...
Kindra Chapman found dead in a jail cell. Right after Sandra Bland’s death. pic.twitter.com/h1rPr1cCOF — Yaphet Kotto (@Darius34092338) July 25, 2015 By Christina Coleman Special to...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist “That’s what strikes me. There for the grace of God.” That was President Obama’s reaction when he became the...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT (NNPA) – From the moment we got in the 2015 Hyundai Genesis, our thought was Hyundai has found...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Jerry Alan Bailey was sentenced to more than 30 years in federal prison for conspiring to violate federal narcotics laws....
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The recent spotlight on systematic racial profiling and police brutality against Black boys and men has exposed a painful...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Watching Donald Trump being interviewed this past week was – for the few moments that I could take it...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Car lending is on the rise, and rising with it is a hidden, unfair, abusive and discriminatory practice: car dealer...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist This seems like an odd question. Capital access is the lifeblood of business growth and job creation. Thus, all...