Oakland City Council chambers became ground zero for protests against gentrification and displacement this week as young activists chained themselves together to keep the City Council...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Call this the year of the test. Or, at least the year of standardized test mania. Standardized test...
DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. House seat in deeply Democratic New York City will remain under Republican...
By Brian Hofer and JP Massar Here in Oakland we have no citywide privacy policy, no privacy or data-retention policies for use of surveillance equipment, and...
BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged Tuesday to improve the city’s police department after meeting with the family of a...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Early this year, Megan E. Green, a St. Louis alderwoman, met with officials of a local police union to discuss a...
ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Retired surgeon Ben Carson declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination Monday, resting his longshot bid on his...
ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Retired surgeon Ben Carson declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination Monday, resting his longshot bid on his...
BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press MICHAEL BIESECKER, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Months before Freddie Gray died of the broken neck he suffered during what Baltimore’s top...
by Mary L. Datcher Special to the NNPA from the Chicago Defender The prospect of a child developing his or her talent and potential is...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On the same day that Loretta Lynch was sworn-in as the 83rd United States Attorney General,...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – On the same day that Loretta Lynch was sworn-in as the 83rd United States Attorney General,...
(New York Times) – As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President...
(New York Times) – As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President...
Ken Thomas and Brian Witte, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Martin O’Malley often casts Baltimore as the comeback city that overcame the ravages of drugs...
Paul Walsh, THE STAR TRIBUNE MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (The StarTribune) — Nekima Levy-Pounds, a college law professor who has been the voice and the face of the...
At Columbia University today, Hillary Clinton called for the end of the “era of mass incarceration.” During remarks at the 18th Annual David N. Dinkins Leadership...
Ben Terris, THE WASHINGTON POST DETROIT (The Washington Post) — Ben Carson had just started a stump speech to his staff, the one about freedom,...
Greg Jaffe, THE WASHINGTON POST NEW YORK (The Washington Post) — He still has almost two years left in office, but the outlines of President...
Sophia Tareen, ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO (AP) — One of the remaining obstacles to building Barack Obama’s presidential library in his hometown of Chicago fell away when...
By Ise Lyfe Auditioning. That’s what comes to mind when I think about the dynamic in the media and tone of local and federal governments...
(Politico) – Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush on Thursday urged Americans to not lose perspective in the aftermath of the Baltimore riots, and offered his...
JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has chosen his hometown of Chicago to host his future presidential library, two individuals with knowledge...
(The Washington Post) – Forget what’s in her heart. Some members of Maryland’s Jewish community are concerned about Rep. Donna F. Edwards’s intestines. “If somebody...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — After more than a decade of wrenching national debate over the intrusiveness of government intelligence agencies, a bipartisan wave of support...
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