(The Washington Post) – For weeks, President Obama has wrestled with his frayed relationship with key members of the American Jewish community. On Friday he...
by Richard B. Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call BALTIMORE (The Final Call) – The tears Tawanda Jones sheds flow freely at times....
JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The makeshift mid-street memorial that marked where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer last summer...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The makeshift mid-street memorial that marked where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer last summer...
(ABC News) – Shaky cell phone video released today may show officers with Freddie Gray during one of the stops made while the Baltimore man was in...
(ABC News) – Shaky cell phone video released today may show officers with Freddie Gray during one of the stops made while the Baltimore man was in...
Special to the NNPA from The Miami Times While America and the rest of the world watch with shock and dismay as Black citizens are gunned...
Special to the NNPA from The Miami Times While America and the rest of the world watch with shock and dismay as Black citizens are gunned...
by Courtney Jacobs Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper An African-American eighth-grader was recently arrested for throwing Skittles on a bus in Louisiana. According...
JIM SUHR, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — An attorney for the family of a black 18-year-old shot and killed last October by an off-duty, white...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager...
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Maryland College Park’s School of...
by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Maryland College Park’s School of...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The prevailing images of protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, over police killings of black men were of...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Contrary to the myth, though Black men are more likely to live apart from their children than...
(Salon) – Nine people have died after a shootout between rival motorcycle gangs in Waco on Sunday, when gunfire erupted in the parking lot of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the wake of the tragic death of Freddie Gray and the protests that followed in...
JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Duke University professor criticized for an online post comparing blacks and Asians said Monday that it’s not...
Jane Stancill, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER (Charlotte Observer) — A Duke University professor faced sharp criticism for online comments he made on The New York Times...
Skyler Henry, NBC-WGMT MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — After more than a decade of budget worries and two funding campaigns, the Tubman Museum in downtown Macon...
Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender Shanesha Taylor, 35, the Arizona mother who left her children in a scorching hot car in March of last...
Peter Herman, THE WASHINGTON POST BALTIMORE (The Washington Post) — Andre Hunt counseled troubled kids through the Boys and Girls Club. He volunteered at the...
By Doshon Farad Special to the NNPA from The Atlanta Daily World In a country that prides itself on being the apex of liberty and...
Ben Kesling and Cameron McWhirter, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (The Wall Street Journal) — The percentage of African-Americans in U.S. police departments has remained flat...