By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Question: When men (and a few women) belonging to gangs known to law enforcement agencies for criminal behavior explode...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist My Daughter Wants Mom to Walk Her Down Aisle Dear Alma, I was married to my wife for 11 years....
Damon Tweedy, THE NEW YORK TIMES DURHAM, N.C. (The New York Times) — In virtually every field of medicine, black patients as a group fare the...
NAIROBI, Kenya (The International News) — Scientists working in Kenya have unearthed the oldest known stone tools, simple cutting and pounding implements crafted by...
Patricia Cohen, THE NEW YORK TIMES MIAMI (The New York Times) — For the Ingram clan, working for the Miami-Dade County transit system has led to...
Jon Krawczynski, ASSOCIATED PRESS MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings will open their optional team practices this week without Adrian Peterson. The star running back...
Tom Withers, ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James dropped to his knees and slapped the floor with his hand. He was exhausted and exhilarated...
By gangstarrgirl, HelloBeautiful.com Special to the NNPA via The New Pittsburgh Courier There’s more drama afoot for the Nina Simone estate. The iconic singer’s...
Margaret S. Gillerman, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FERGUSON (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — A group that has been collecting signatures for a recall of Mayor James Knowles...
Mary Delach Leonard, ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Public Radio) — The elm and oak trees have grown tall with age in...
D.L. Chandler, NEWSONE MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (NewsOne) — The Atlantic Beach Bikefest, otherwise known as Black Bike Week, is the largest African-American motorcycle rally event in...
Jason Hanna, Ralph Ellis, and Greg Botelho, CNN CLEVELAND, Ohio (CNN) — Yes, Cleveland police Officer Michael Brelo stood on a car and shot 15 times...
By Stephanie Carson, N.C. News Service Special to the NNPA via The Charlotte Post RALEGH (NNPA) – At a time when the manner in which...
By Lucy Drafton-Lowery and Idriys Abdullah Special to the NNPA via The Washington Informer YOU WON! We all dream of winning it big through a...
Carolina Moreno, THE HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post) — The Root has a new home to grow in. Hispanic media juggernaut Univision Communications Inc. bought the...
Colin Campbell, BUSINESS INSIDER (Business Insider) — Presidential candidate and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) blasted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday over her...
Special to the NNPA via OurWeekly Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (NNPA) — Senate Bill 629, a measure to correct an obsolete reference to the...
By Lynette Holloway Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender Black women and girls matter too. Don’t forget. #sayhername #BlackWomenMatter #blackwomenslivesmatter pic.twitter.com/SoQde3dshr — satan with...
Michael W. Twitty, THE GUARDIAN (The Guardian) — African Americans have fought and died for America from its earliest days, from frontier skirmishes to the...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., (NNPA) — It was bigger, taller and barely looked like a Fiat 500 from the side. But...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. / It’s had tacks in it, /And splinters, / And boards torn...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist By the time you read this article, millions of college students will have graduated and be looking for jobs, many...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Freddie Gray is neither the first, nor will he be the last person to die in police custody. According to...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist As a baby-boomer who grew up on war movies, I thought of veterans as various forms of heroes. I...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist I woke up this Tuesday morning to another bomb of sports news dropped on the NFL: “Four-time Super Bowl winning...