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ATLANTA — Atlanta’s mayor and police chief are leading a push to re-examine evidence from a string of murders that terrorized the city’s black community between 1979 and 1981. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Police […]

By Global Information Network There were smiles all around in Kenya as French President Emmanuel Macron and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta shook hands over a series of infrastructure deals worth $3.3 billion. It was the […]

By Stephen A. Crockett Jr. Ben Carson never wanted to be the Housing and Urban Development director; he wanted to be the president. After losing the Republican nomination to Donald J. Trump, Carson was quoted […]

Roland Martin By Richard Prince, Journal-isms Network Won’t Talk if Roland Martin Is Involved The National Association of Black Journalists Tuesday called out CNN for a lack of Black news executives, but CNN responded that […]

Mathematician Katherine Johnson poses for a photo with her namesake, the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, during a ribbon cutting ceremony on Sept. 22, 2017. Johnson’s story […]

(Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA). Photos of missing children: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Lashaya Stine, 16, By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Lashaya Stine, 16, was walking down the street alone […]

(Tennessee Tribune) Juvenile arrest rates have fallen sharply in recent years, but Black youth are disproportionately sent to adult court by judges at some of the highest percentages seen in 30 years, according to a […]

  One of the first act of Florida’s new Governor Ron DeSantis and the state’s three-member Cabinet was to grant posthumous pardons to four Black men accused of raping a white woman in 1949 in […]