Dave Birkett, USA TODAY (USA Today)—The lawyer for Detroit Lions running back Reggie Bush said he denies allegations made in a Louisiana courtroom recently that...
Dalatou Mamane, ASSOCIATED PRESS NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — A total of 109 Boko Haram fighters were killed by soldiers responding to attacks on two towns in...
Lynn Elber, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — The civil rights drama “Selma” won top honors at the NAACP Image Awards in a ceremony that...
Mike Lillis, THE HILL WASHINGTON (The Hill)—Leading members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are lining up to skip a coming speech by the prime...
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’...
The stirring film “Selma” ends with Dr. King leading civil rights marchers across the bridge and to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It...
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...
Civil Rights veteran and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. was the guest speaker at the True Vine Ministries services, which are held...
By Michael D. Bell, M.D. On Christmas Day, I started my shift at Children’s Hospital Oakland’s Emergency department and suddenly I heard trauma stat full...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has decried the “inhuman” conditions facing migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and has encouraged communities there...