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Kenyan Slaughter: Troops Delayed Rescue for Nearly 15 Hours, Survivors Say

April 28, 2015

Special to the Outlook from Trice Edney News Wire Frightened students at Garissa University in northeast Kenya, hid for what seemed like a lifetime as a small band of al Shabaab terrorists lined young people up on the floor and put a bullet in the back of their

How Obama is Addressing the Crisis Among Boys and Young Men of Color

April 21, 2015

By Nigel Roberts The Root It was easy to mistake last week’s gathering at a New York City hotel for a religious meeting. One panelist, who proudly proclaimed his Baptist-preacher lineage, issued the rallying cry in his opening remarks: “God is good all the time.” But the roughly 200

Scott Murder Indicative of ‘Culture Of Abuse’

April 21, 2015

By Barney Blakeney Special to the Outlook from NNPA CHARLESTON, S.C. – North Charleston Branch NAACP President Ed Bryant said Thursday the April 4 shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott by a North Charleston police officer is indicative of the culture of abuse that exists in the department when

Ben Crump Named NNPA Newsmaker of the Year

April 14, 2015

By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent Benjamin Crump, the lawyer who skyrocketed to national prominence by representing the family of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teenager who was followed, confronted and shot to death by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla., said that since the fourth grade, he always knew

NUL Report: Black America Remains in Crisis

April 7, 2015

By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When it comes to the equality in America, a new report by the National Urban League says that Blacks are missing nearly 30 percent of the pie. The annual State of Black America (SOBA) report compared how well Blacks were

Preparing for 2016 Campaign, Hillary Clinton Embracing Obama

April 7, 2015

Julie Pace and Ken Thomas Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Rather than keeping him at arm’s length, Hillary Rodham Clinton is embracing President Barack Obama — sometimes even literally. Clinton had been expected to look for some ways to separate herself from the president to avoid the impression that having

George Zimmerman criticizes Pres. Obama, says he ‘can’t feel guilty’ for killing Trayvon Martin

April 7, 2015

By The Grio George Zimmerman is speaking out for the first time since the Department of Justice cleared him of civil rights violations. The message is clear: He’s not sorry. Zimmerman maintained that his actions in shooting Trayvon Martin were justified and that he would not have done anything differently,

Black America Missing Nearly Half of Its Economic Share New Report Shows African-Americans at Rock Bottom of America’s Equality Index

March 31, 2015

By Hazel Trice Edney Trice Edney News Wire Amidst continued struggles to maintain voting rights, protests to end shootings of unarmed Black males by police and a constant press to lower the jobless rate for African-Americans, a new report this week announces that Black America is still not receiving

Child Poverty in New Orleans Surpasses National Rate

March 31, 2015

By Kari Dequine Harden Special to the Outlook Trice Edney News Wire While the state of the economy in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina has been described as a renaissance – life is not getting much better for a large percentage of the city’s children. According to

Four More Aid Workers Flown Back to US for Ebola Monitoring

March 31, 2015

Mike Stobbe AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Four more American aid workers arrived back in the United States on Tuesday from West Africa to be monitored for Ebola, health officials said. The latest arrivals bring to 15 the number of aid workers who have returned