Larry Altman, DAILY BREEZE MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (Daily Breeze)—A black Manhattan Beach couple said Thursday they believe their race might be the reason someone set...
Mike DeBonis, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—The District’s predominantly African American leaders have long taken pains to address the concerns of underrepresented minority...
Mike DeBonis, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—The District’s predominantly African American leaders have long taken pains to address the concerns of underrepresented minority...
Frances Stead Sellers, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—It’s no secret that the stamp of historic segregation is still seared into black and white Americans’...
Sonya Eskridge Special to the NNPA from the CHICAGO DEFENDER (NNPA)—Black female students are facing two huge institutional challenges as racism and sexism converge in...
JULIET LINDERMAN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A case that grabbed headlines and exposed deep-seated corruption in Baltimore’s city jail, where gang commanders impregnated guards, dealt...
DETROIT (USA Today) — After years of huffin’ and puffin’, logging 21 miles by foot to get to and from work, James Robertson can breathe...
RICK CALLAHAN, Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 9-year-old Indianapolis girl wounded by gunfire as she was heading off to her weekly Girl Scouts meeting to...
WASHINGTON (CBS) – Rosa Parks is known as the mother of the Civil Rights movement, but she is still an enigma in many ways. A new...
JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) — Along Main Street in a small South Carolina city, there is war memorial honoring fallen World War I...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two months after a grand jury declined to press criminal charges in the police killing of an unarmed...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two months after a grand jury declined to press criminal charges in the police killing of an unarmed...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief NASSAU, Bahamas (NNPA) – A top Bahamas official praised the Black Press last week as essential to truthfully and...
(US News) – State lawmakers across the country are considering bills that would increase the presence of guns in schools, with a number of states...
At 71, the Freedom Fighter Battles On by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer Say the name Angela Davis and, depending...
At 71, the Freedom Fighter Battles On by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer Say the name Angela Davis and, depending...
(The Atlantic) – Like many mothers raising children in Chicago’s housing projects in the 1990s and 2000s, Seitia Harris was afraid of the drugs and...
(Salon) – After losing the Great Race Debate of 2014 to Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jonathan Chait has decided to begin this year coming for “the feminists,”...
George E. Curry NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) –Black girls are disproportionately suffering from punitive school disciplinary policies and actions yet society fails to take note of...
CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The gap in bachelor-degree attainment between the nation’s richest and poorest students by age 24 has doubled during...
BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, reflected later on how it felt...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent A woman is raped every 2 minutes in the United States. According to the U.S. Justice Department, nearly one...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Income inequality is rising and it affects workers in every state, according to a new...
Christopher Mathias, HUFFINGTON POST NEW YORK (Huffington Post)—Constance Malcolm still lives in the Bronx apartment where her 18-year-old son, Ramarley Graham, was shot and killed...
Terry Shropshire, Special from the ATLANTA DAILY WORLD (NNPA)—Johnson Publishing, the mothership company of the beleaguered yet iconic magazines Ebony and Jet has put their legendary photo archives on the...