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May 22, 2013 -
HARARE, Zimbabwe (NNPA) – The United States has signaled that it is moving toward normalizing relations with Zimbabwe, the former White minority-rule nation once known as Rhodesia.more
May 19, 2013 -
ATLANTA (AP) President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically Black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as Black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives.more
May 18, 2013 -
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Republicans have chosen firebrand conservative minister E.W. Jackson's for lieutenant governor, the first black candidate the party has nominated for statewide office since 1988.more
May 14, 2013 -
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence.more
May 14, 2013 -
DETROIT (AP) — A visibly frustrated Detroit Mayor Dave Bing announced Tuesday that he won't seek a second term and ripped Michigan officials for not giving him enough time to solve the financially strapped city's problems on his own.more
May 13, 2013 -
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police identified a 19-year-old man as a suspect in the shooting of nearly 20 people during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, saying several people had identified him as the gunman.more
May 09, 2013 -
WASHINGTON— Michelle Obama and military mothers had high tea like the British on May 9.more
May 08, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Social Security changes proposed by President Obama could hurt African Americans more than other groups, according to a new report by the Center for Global Policy Solutions.more
May 02, 2013 -
President Obama joined journalists, dignitaries and countless celebrities April 27 for the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. more
April 29, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is nominating Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx, a rising star in Democratic politics, to run the Transportation Department, a White House official said.more
April 28, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — America's Blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the White turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which Blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many Whites stayed home.more
April 27, 2013 -
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man whose home and business were searched as part of an investigation into poisoned letters sent to the president and others has been arrested in the case, according to the FBI.more
April 26, 2013 -
Procter & Gamble brought its nationwide campaign to celebrate Black beauty to the big screen April 21, with the premiere of its Imagine a Future documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.more
April 26, 2013 -
(Updated 4/26/2013) President Obama said he and wife Michelle have what they believe is a foolproof way of deterring daughters Malia, 14, and Sasha, 11, from getting tattoos or engaging in other teenage rebellion.more
April 26, 2013 -
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh stirred the pot again this week when he compared the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings to Trayvon Martin.more
April 23, 2013 -
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Charges were dropped Tuesday against the Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others, while authorities searched at another man's home in connection with the case.more
April 20, 2013 -
Maryland has been the top-rated public school system in the nation for the last five years, but the state’s public school system is also one of the most segregated in the nation, according to a new study.more
April 17, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says the letters sent to President Barack Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker are related and are both postmarked out of Memphis, Tenn., dated April 8.more
April 17, 2013 -
(Updated 4/17/2013) OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — The FBI has identified a Mississippi man suspected of mailing letters containing poisonous ricin as 45-year-old Paul Kevin Curtis.more
April 12, 2013 -
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Lockdowns for two North Carolina college campuses were lifted Friday after separate incidents involving reports of guns.more
April 10, 2013 -
Black immigrants and others stand to lose if the United States’ system of family-based visas is changed, according to religious and immigration reform activists.more
April 09, 2013 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lil Wayne, Ron Howard, Scarlett Johansson and Kim Kardashian are all on the same page when it comes to criminal justice reform.more
April 09, 2013 -
(Updated 4/11/2013) In 1975 the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim joined what very large neighbor to its south? “India!” shouted a student from Morgan State University, winning the university its second championship at the 24th Annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC), an academic competition challenging the wit of the best and brightest students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) around the country.more
March 31, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind?more
March 29, 2013 -
President Obama made history again on March 26, naming veteran Secret Service agent Julia Pierson as the agency's first female director.more
March 28, 2013 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama pressed Congress on March 28 not to forget the heartbreak of the Newtown elementary school massacre and "get squishy" on tightened gun laws, though some lawmakers in his own Democratic Party remain a tough sell on an approaching Senate vote to expand purchasers' background checks.
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March 28, 2013 -
CHICAGO (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is joining Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago business leaders in an effort to raise $50 million to address youth violence.more
March 22, 2013 -
Marylander Thomas Perez, an assistant U.S. attorney general, has been tapped to serve as President Obama’s next Secretary of Labor.more
March 13, 2013 -
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope Wednesday, becoming the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Francis, associating himself with the humble 13th-century Italian preacher who lived a life of poverty.more
March 13, 2013 -
SHANGHAI (NNPA) – In less than 15 years, according to projections by investment banking firm Goldman Sachs and the United States National Intelligence Council, China will overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy. And that dramatic shift has touched off a guessing game about what the dramatic shift will mean for the U.S. and the rest of the world.more
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