BERLIN (AP) — Left-wing groups and trade unions were staging rallies around the world Friday to mark International Workers Day. Most events were peaceful protests for...
John Boyette, THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE (The Augusta Chronicle) — Pete Brown, the first black golfer to win a PGA Tour event, died Friday morning at Doctors...
Katie Lobosco, CNN MONEY LAS VEGAS (CNN.com) — Experts expect that between $60 and $80 million worth of bets will be placed on the match in...
Emily Orley, BUZZFEED NEWS (BuzzFeed News) — On Friday, actor Lili Bernard stated at a news conference in New York City that in the early 1990s,...
Paul Schwartzman, THE WASHINGTON POST BALTIMORE (The Washington Post) — The six officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray face a litany of charges that...
via ASSOCIATED PRESS 1:50 a.m. (EDT) Police in Portland, Oregon, say an initially peaceful May Day demonstration turned violent Friday evening as a splinter group hurled...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist CHICAGO (NNPA) – We drove a 2015 Dodge Durango here from Detroit and navigated around the Windy City for...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Now it is Baltimore. There Freddie Gray, a Black man, was stopped on the street, pinned to the...
Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul, ASSOCIATED PRESS MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Scores more women and children have been rescued from Islamic extremists in the remote...
Hippolyte Marboua and Angela Charlton, ASSOCIATED PRESS BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Residents of a squalid refugee camp said Thursday that French soldiers tasked with...
Elizabeth Chuck and Emmanuelle Saliba, NBC NEWS (NBC News) — R&B legend Ben E. King, best known for his hit song “Stand By Me,”...
Meredith Cohn, THE BALTIMORE SUN BALTIMORE (The Baltimore Sun) — When some medical experts look at the choppy, grainy video of Freddie Gray’s arrest, they...
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...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist It’s the academic version of the world heavyweight championship boxing matches between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in Zaire...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist You know their names – Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice – because these African American men were unarmed and...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist More than 88,000 people have applied to enter the “poor door” at a new luxury condominium tower on the...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much;...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The reputations of Bill and Hillary Clinton have become legendary. It goes back to their days in Arkansas where...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Good times are coming to the big screen. “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris has been set to write the screenplay for a “Good...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Glenn Ford, 64, convicted of murder in 1984, spent a quarter-century on the death row of Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison...
Adam Nagourney and Jack Healy, THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPTON, Calif. (The New York Times) — Alysia Thomas, a stay-at-home mother in this working-class city, tells...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist It was opening night for NeNe on Broadway and not a RHOA was in sight. Not surprised! Still, it looks...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Mama taking over the Wedding Hey, Alma – My friend is getting married, I’m in the wedding and I couldn’t...
Mohammed Mukhashaf, REUTERS ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) — The humanitarian situation in Yemen has become catastrophic, relief officials said on Monday, as Saudi-led aircraft pounded Iran-allied Houthi...