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Family Of Eric Garner Renews Calls For Charges Against Officer Who Killed Him

July 30, 2015

By Michael McLaughlin The Huffington Post The family of a man choked to death by a New York City police officer renewed their call to see criminal charges a day after agreeing to a $5.9 million settlement with city officials. With the one-year anniversary of Eric Garner’s death days

Cooper, Executive Director of White House Initiative on HBCUs, Dies

July 28, 2015

By HBCU Digest Special to the Outlook George Cooper, a long-time HBCU administrator, former president of South Carolina State University, and primary liaison between the federal government and Historically Black Colleges and Universities, died Sunday, July 18. The native Tallahasseean was regarded as a policy expert on

Kenyans Warn Obama: ‘Keep Off the Gay Agenda’

July 21, 2015

Special to the Outlook Five Kenyan lawmakers have threatened to eject President Barack Obama from Parliament if he tries to lecture them about same sex marriage during his upcoming visit. Member of Parliament Cecily Mbarire also urged the government to reject any aid if it

Black Newspaper Revealed History of Fight Against Racist Emblem

July 21, 2015

By Hazel Trice Edney Trice Edney News Wire It was mid-summer 1992 when the Black airman of the Virginia Air National Guard walked into the Richmond Free Press newsroom and asked to see a reporter. After he placed the stack of photos on my desk, asked for anonymity and

A Push to Address Black-on-Black Violence

June 18, 2015

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent As cities across the country have mobilized massive street protests over police violence and misconduct, a familiar question has been raised by their opponents: Why does violence within the Black community garner less concern than police violence? According to crowd-sourced database, Mapping Police Violence,

Hundreds Help Clean Up After Baltimore Riots

May 19, 2015

By Stacey M. Brown Special to the Outlook NNPA BALTIMORE — Students from Morgan State University, local teachers, individuals who were out of school because of the closings and members of several fraternities methodically began cleaning the city after a violent night of rioting and looting. In all, about

Blacks Lag in Accessing High-Speed Internet

May 19, 2015

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent As education, jobs, and the national and global economy go digital, people without broadband (high-speed Internet) access risk being left behind. This disparity in who’s online and who isn’t is often called the digital divide – and Blacks and Latinos are more

New Attorney General Tackles Police Brutality

May 19, 2015

By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent On the same day that Loretta Lynch was sworn-in as the 83rd United States Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer in the nation, about 40 miles north of Washington, D.C., pockets of “Charm City” descended into lawlessness in response to

Loretta Lynch Confirmed by Senate as Attorney General

May 5, 2015

By Mike DeBonis Loretta E. Lynch’s long wait to become U.S. attorney general ended April 23, with the Senate voting to confirm the veteran New York prosecutor’s nomination five months after President Obama submitted it to Congress. Ten Republicans joined the Senate’s 44 Democrats and two independents in supporting Lynch’s

Loretta Lynch Supporters Stage Hunger Strike to Urge Confirmation But a key Republican said it could be weeks more before a nomination vote

April 28, 2015

By Seung Min Kim and Burgess Everett Politico Loretta Lynch’s allies are launching a hunger strike until she’s confirmed as attorney general, but they could be waiting weeks if Republicans follow through on their threat to delay Lynch even longer. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) warned Wednesday that the