By Elaina Johnson Howard University News Service WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Grammy Award-winning artist Bishop Hezekiah Walker can add the 2015 Torch Award for religion to his...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Hundreds of Black women and girls representing the Black Women’s Roundtable descended on the nation’s capital...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the economy recovers and violent crime hits 30-year lows, lawmakers continue to trade in their...
By Barrington M. Salmon Special to the NNPA from the Washington Informer WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Growing concern for the well-being of the Walter Fauntroy and...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Benjamin Crump, the lawyer who skyrocketed to national prominence by representing the family of Trayvon...
PHOENIX (USA Today) — An Arizona State University course called “U.S. Race Theory & the Problem of Whiteness” has gained national attention and landed the...
By Dr. Ro NNPA Columnist The much-maligned carbohydrate (an essential, macro nutrient) has been touted as the bane of your dietary existence for too long. Don’t...
By Walter L Fields NNPA Columnist In the course of one week we witnessed the burden of being young, gifted and Black. First, the Little...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Approximately three weeks ago, I suffered a mild heart attack. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Robert T. Wade, a longtime family...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “What the people want is very simple: they want an America as good as its promise.” – Texas Congresswoman...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist One of leading freedom fighters in the United States Congress is none other than the extraordinarily dynamic Maxine...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Long before China and India became the economic wonders of Asia, there was Singapore, a small, diverse country with no...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In the aftermath of a letter signed by 500 consumer advocates from all 50 states, an unprecedented push for reining...
By Marian Wright Edelman and Melanie Hartzog NNPA Guest Columnists Under New York’s juvenile justice system a child as young as 7 can be arrested...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The EB-5 Visa program has been in the news lately because of the alleged manipulation of the program by...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (NNPA)–Although it should be sunny by the time you read this, we ran into real...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist This week in Atlanta, it was all about feelings, tears and jeers. Nene may be gone, but the ladies continue...
Tom Withers, ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND (AP) — The NFL sent a tough message to Browns general manager Ray Farmer for texting. However, the league...
Hannah Nichols, MEDICAL NEWS TODAY (Medical News Today)—Coffee is the morning pick-me-up of millions – every day people drink coffee to increase wakefulness and improve...
Niraj Chokshi, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Washington and Oregon on Friday joined Colorado in defending its recreational marijuana law against a suit brought by...
Lolita C. Blador, ASSOCIATED PRESS ABINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Saying the military needs to do more to compete with corporate America for quality recruits,...
Henry Hanks, CNN LAS VEGAS (CNN)—The three best-known members of 1990s R&B group Destiny’s Child reunited onstage Saturday night in a surprise performance. Beyonce, Kelly Rowland...
Diane Depra, TECH TIMES (TechTimes.com)—A lot of people know John Urschel as an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens. What they don’t know is that...
Elizabeth Wagmeister, VARIETY MAGAZINE NEW YORK (VARIETY)—NBC will ease on down the road for its next live musical television event. “The Wiz” will take center stage...
Jennifer Mann, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)—At a pro-police rally Saturday, a St. Louis police union representative called Department of Justice investigators “a...