By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A long-awaited decision by the United States Supreme Court led to a June 25 ruling that preserves the usage of...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “They were still living by faith when they died, Scripture tells us. They did not receive the things promised;...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist I am sick of hearing about how the media is misrepresenting our community and not fairly reporting issues. Have you...
Campbell Robertson, John Schwartz, and Richard Pérez-Peña, THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW ORLEANS (The New York Times) — An $18.7 billion settlement announced Thursday of...
(The New York Times) — The question of how to save Greece, debated for more than five years, is the European Union’s recurring nightmare. After...
Amy Pollock, REUTERS (Reuters) — The arid expanses of the Sahara desert could be transformed within a decade, according to French architecture company OXO. The...
Honor Whiteman, MEDICAL NEWS TODAY (Medical News Today) — A new study suggests weight-loss surgery combined with low-level lifestyle interventions may be a more effective...
Yvette Caslin, ROLLING OUT (RollingOut.com) — FIFA Women’s World Cup winner and Olympic gold medalist, Sydney Rae Leroux Dwyer, 25, is making headlines. Playing in...
Nokuthula Manyathi, DESTINY CONNECT (DestinyConnect.com) — It’s the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and winning Wimbeldon is seen as the pinnacle of a tennis player’s career. A...
Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY NEW YORK (USA Today) — Add Malia Obama to the list of summer interns spending their classes-free months shadowing professionals and...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist This month marks what would have been the 107th birthday of the late United States Supreme Court Justice...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist I recently wrote that several extraordinary developments of June – the tragedy at Charleston’s Emanuel A.M.E. Church and its...
Zoe Kleinman, BBC (BBC.com) — The creators of Facegloria claim the site has attracted 100,000 members since its launch last month. There are 600 words...
Peter Nickeas, Alexandra Chachkevitch and Jeremy Gorner, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE CHICAGO (The Chicago Tribune) — After a relatively quiet start to the Fourth of July...
Catherine Shu, TECHCRUNCH (TechCrunch.com) — Black Friday, the annual shopping extravaganza which brought in more than $1.5 billion in online sales alone last November, is...
Dan Rivoli, THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS NEW YORK (The New York Daily News) — The head of a black business organization wants Mayor de...
Igor Bobic, THE HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Huffington Post) — Rick Perry stepped up to the lectern and paused. The former Texas governor scanned the...
Jeffery Collins, ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The depth of support for bringing down the Confederate flag gets its first test in the South Carolina...
Lauren Talarico, KHOU 11 NEWS SPRING, Texas (KHOU.com) — A Spring family is trying to figure out who vandalized their truck overnight with hate speech...
Howard Fendrich, ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON (AP) — Just like old times. Used to be that a match involving Miss Williams vs. Miss Williams, as they...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Black Americans made strides in the job market in June, with their unemployment rate reaching its lowest level in seven years. The black...
Corinne Heller, ENTERTAINMENT ONLINE (EOnline.com) — This may give you chills. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, 60, and Utah-based Grammy-nominated violinist Jenny Oats Baker,...
NEW ORLEANS (AP via The New York Times) — For 15 years, thousands of fans dressed all in white entered the Superdome on the final day...
Janet McConnaughey, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS (AP) — About to be overrun by Germans, a young black lieutenant called in an artillery barrage on his...
Elias Isquith, SALON (Salon.com) — It’s been a little more than two weeks since nine human beings, all African-American, were murdered in a Charleston, South...