Molly Hennessey-Fiske, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PORT GIBSON, Miss. (The L.A. Times)—They found the black man’s body hanging by a bedsheet from a locust tree....
(The Huffington Post) – At least six businesses in Austin, Texas, have been plastered with stickers reading “Exclusively For White People,” drawing condemnation from the...
(The Huffington Post) – At least six businesses in Austin, Texas, have been plastered with stickers reading “Exclusively For White People,” drawing condemnation from the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With no federal unemployment insurance and rapidly disappearing state coverage, the percentage of people benefiting from...
by Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — As Eric Holder ended his tenure as U.S. Attorney General, he said, “The troubling reality is...
(New Pittsburgh Courier) – Family and friends of former D.C. Delegate and Civil Rights icon Walter Fauntroy have grown increasingly concerned following reports that a...
Special to the NNPA from Target Market News CHICAGO — Three national African-American organizations have issued a joint statement in response to the $20 billion lawsuit...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite high-profile concern over issues underscored by the racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, African Americans and Hispanics are...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite high-profile concern over issues underscored by the racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, African Americans and Hispanics are...
FERGUSON, Mo. (The Huffington Post) — The revenue-reaping practices of the police department and municipal court in this St. Louis suburb were widely condemned this month and...
(ABC News) – The state is investigating whether excessive force was used during the arrest of a 20-year-old black University of Virginia student after he attempted...
(ABC News) – The state is investigating whether excessive force was used during the arrest of a 20-year-old black University of Virginia student after he attempted...
(Daily Mail) – A former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who now lives in Belize, alongside the very race of people he fought to...
(The Smoking Gun) – Izola Ware Curry, the “demented black woman” who nearly killed Martin Luther King, Jr. by plunging a steel letter opener into...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Four more American aid workers arrived back in the United States on Tuesday from West Africa to...
MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Penn State University fraternity was suspended for a year Tuesday after police began investigating allegations that members...
MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Penn State University fraternity was suspended for a year Tuesday after police began investigating allegations that members...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Researchers studying the affects of public policy on the racial wealth gap estimated that the...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Researchers studying the affects of public policy on the racial wealth gap estimated that the...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A growing body of research indicates that Black people pay more attention to local news and...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A growing body of research indicates that Black people pay more attention to local news and...
(Los Angeles Times) – Two plainclothes Los Angeles police officers were shot at Sunday evening while driving through a South L.A. neighborhood, prompting an exchange...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A spokesman says allegations that St. Louis County police used excessive force when arresting a man accused...
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A spokesman says allegations that St. Louis County police used excessive force when arresting a man accused...
(The Root) – The voter-ID war just opened up a huge new front. This time in Tennessee. A group of nine students from HBCUs Fisk...