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Along with being a vocal Black Lives Matter advocate, the young leader founded two community service organizations: a mentorship program called Pursuing Our Dreams, and a charity for the homeless called Feed The Streets. […]
Democratic Presidential contenders former Sec. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders ended the Iowa Caucuses in nearly a dead heat on Monday. But, the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) has confirmed that Clinton actually won the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he will ban the use of solitary confinement for juvenile and low-level offenders in federal prisons, citing the potential for “devastating, lasting psychological consequences” from the use of the isolation as punishment. “It […]
It’s official: Ted Cruz is the Republican winner of the Iowa caucus. The Associated Press called the contest, the first vote in the 2016 primaries, for Cruz on Monday evening, after he definitively defeated Donald […]
The Bold City (FL) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated of Jacksonville recently contributed to the revamping of Jamaican elementary schools as a part of the national organization’s Global Delegation initiative. Over 160 Links’ members and […]
A top African-American congressman is calling for the formation of a House select committee to investigate some of the police officer-involved shootings that have triggered controversies and mass condemnation in the United States for the […]
The death of Tamir Rice showed us that it’s not even safe to play outside with toy guns if you’re a young Black kid, and an unnamed man in an unidentified neighborhood somewhere in […]
The University of Cincinnati has agreed to pay $4.8 million to the family, including 12 children, of a man shot to death by a campus police officer last summer, both sides announced Monday. The settlement […]
Sgt. Kizzy Adonis was served the charges as part of the investigation into Eric Garner’s chokehold death and placed on modified duty on Friday, an NYPD spokesman said. (By Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) By […]
By Stacy M. Brown, Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Washington Informer Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, the famed 80-year-old afro-centrist, has died. Welsing’s death was announced by close friends on social media and […]
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