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By Chris King Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American Reynaldo Anderson, a professor of communications at Harris-Stowe State University, said the university wants to be the St. Louis region’s “think tank for issues of...

By Damon C. Williams Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA – Hours after announcing his administration had secured a multinational pact with Iran to limit their nuclear program, President Barack Obama...

By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When President Obama returns to Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. Friday to eulogize Rev. Clementa Pinckney, it will cap a period in which he has become...

By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic Jordan Davis was born Feb 16, 1995.  Contrary to his belief, he was not named after the basketball legend Michael Jordan.  His mom, Lucia McBath, insists she named him after the crossing over of...

By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – College graduates will enter a job market this year that is better than it has been in recent years, but they will still face a tough climb. That climb...

Richard B. Muhammad BALTIMORE (NNPA) – Unrest in a city known yesterday for crab cakes, row houses, marble steps, downtown tourist spots and sports stadiums—alongside struggles with decay, violence and heroin—has captured global...