Special to the Outlook Netflix, Inc., the world’s leading Internet-service company, has named Susan M. Rice, former Ambassador to the United Nations and former U.S. National Security Advisor, to its board of directors. “We are delighted to welcome Ambassador Rice to the Netflix board,” said Reed Hastings,
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Contributor Rapper Meek Mill sat down with NBC’s Lester Holt to talk about his experiences in the criminal justice system for a Dateline interview that aired on Sunday, May 6. “I had eight years of probation that turned [into] 16 years of
Special to the Outlook April’s jobless rate for Black men and Black women improved to 6.60 percent, down from 6.90 percent in March as the nonfarm business payroll increased by 164,000, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported May 4. The jobless rate for Blacks was the
By Frederick H. Lowe Trice Edney News Wire The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum has opened to teach American history never published in textbooks. The museum is a memorial to the documented 4,400 African-Americans murdered in lynchings, which included beatings, drownings and
By Frederick H. Lowe Trice Edney News Wire After watching WGN television news in Chicago on this past Sunday show mugshot after mugshot of Black men either under arrest or wanted by police, it was exciting to see a photo, not a mugshot, of James Shaw, Jr., a 29
NNPA NEWSWIRE SPECIAL REPORTING: The Bill Cosby Trial By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Contributor NORRISTOWN—Two days of hearings in the Bill Cosby retrial got off to a rough start, as the judge chastised defense attorneys for the way they’ve filed paperwork with the court. Judge Steven O’Neill, who
By Frederick H. Lowe Trice Edney Newswire Linda Brown, the named plaintiff in the 1954 landmark civil rights case “Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka” in which the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the nation’s public schools to desegregate, has died. Ms. Brown died Sunday, March 25, in Topeka,
By Genoa Barrow Trice Edney News Wire SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Having come together to mourn Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old Black father killed by Sacramento police officers on March 18, many funeral goers voiced the common refrain, “that could have been my son.” Veteran activist Rev. Al Sharpton echoed the sentiment
Sacramento Observer Staff Report SACRAMENTO, Calif.– The eight bullets that struck unarmed Stephon Clark hit him in the back or side, and none came from the front, clearly refuting the contention by police that Clark was moving toward them when they gunned him down. Those are the findings of an
By Erick Johnson Chicago Crusader/NNPA Member It was once the headquarters of one of America’s first Black women millionaires. Today, the Madam Walker Theatre Center, a cherished relic from a bygone era of Indianapolis Black culture, is getting a major makeover. The 90-year-old downtown landmark that housed her empire is
