Category: NATIONAL

While furloughed government employees are turning to pawn shops to borrow money to pay their rents and mortgages, and others are standing in line at food banks for

By JAKE COYLE NEW YORK (AP) — M. Night Shyamalan scored his fifth No. 1 movie as the director’s “Glass,” while not quite the blockbuster some expected, nevertheless

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says General Motors should sit down with its workers in Ohio who say they’ve been facing ongoing racial harassment, including

By SHARON COHEN and ADAM GELLER Locked up for life at 15, Norman Brown remains defined by the crime that put him behind bars. Twenty-seven years ago, Brown

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia That Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris announced her candidate for president on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is no

Austin, TX – On Saturday, January 12, the “Children of the Confederacy Creed” plaque was removed from the Texas Capitol, where it had been on display for the

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration cannot put a question about citizenship status on the 2020 census, a federal judge in New York ruled Friday in a

Khalil Osiris knows all about prison – he spent the first half of his life in one and was finally released when he was 40 years old. But

Martin Luther King, Jr., original name was Michael King, Jr. he was born 90 years ago on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, GA.  In 1934, his father, a

By Stacy M. Brown,NNPA Newswire Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia With over 50,000 federal employees, the fourth congressional district in Maryland represents the fifth largest number of workers, and Maryland likely counts