(Los Angeles Times) – The autopsy of Ezell Ford, a mentally ill black man killed by police in South Los Angeles in August, shows he...
(L) Protestors want President Obama to address the problems of racism and police brutality. (R) Pastor Jedidiah Brown leads protest near the Chicago home of President...
ERIC OLSON, AP Sports Writers NOAH TRISTER, AP Sports Writers Jim Harbaugh and Urban Meyer in the Big Ten? It has a certain ring to it,...
ROB MAADDI, AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — No one in the sports world had heard of the 2014 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year...
by Karen Juanita Carrillo Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News President Obama’s surprise announcement that the United States will normalize relations with...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic R.I.P. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Your story has been told. Your legacy passed on. Your strategies for non-violent...
(Entertainment Weekly) – In the wake of criticisms of Selma’s characterization of President Lyndon B. Johnson, director Ava DuVernay argued that people should “interrogate history.” In a...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black Republicans made history during the midterm elections in November by winning in Texas, South Carolina...
The Associated Press The killings of two unarmed black men by white police officers in Missouri and New York this summer touched off protests and...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Fox News, which mislabels itself as “fair and balanced,” was anything but in 2014, according to MediaMatters.org, the independent...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist As we begin 2015, millions of people throughout the world will make their annual New Year’s resolutions. But...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist The movie Selma, which debuted on Christmas Day, is an eerily timely film detailing a history not taught in...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist People must wonder why the United States has been so hard on Cuba for the past 55 years. The...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist At this time of the year everyone is making predictions about the coming year and/or reflections on the past....
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist In the middle of an American turmoil between the police force and African-American men, what I would like in 2014...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Anyone who has been to an emergency room, out-patient clinic or undergone a series of medical tests knows how it...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Rafael Ramos had been a school security guard before he joined the New York City Police Department two years ago....
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist There are critical similarities between the furious controversy in the fall about the Ebola crisis in the U.S. –...
Chris Burke and Doug Farrar, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (SportsIllustrated.com)—Black Monday is here. Which coaches and GMs will get their walking papers with the 2014 season in...
Josh Lederman, ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU (AP) — Warning from President Barack Obama to congressional Republicans: I have a veto pen and, come January, I won’t...
Brian Windhorst and Marc Stein, ESPN (ESPN.com)—There is a growing level of worry within the Cleveland Cavaliers’ organization about first-year coach David Blatt and his ability...
Christopher Rosen, THE HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—An Oscar contender isn’t an Oscar contender without cries of inaccuracy. That’s where Ava DuVernay’s “Selma” is at right...
Justin Moyer, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—It’s no secret: Chris Rock did not like being married. Or, if he did, he sure didn’t sound...
(InformationNigeria.com)—Fashion designer turned oil tycoon, Chief (Mrs) Folorunsho Alakija, is now officially the richest black woman in the world with an estimated net worth of...
John Curran, FORBES (Forbes.com)—You have probably been hearing quite a bit in recent months about the Internet of Things coalescing into a major high tech business...