Vivica A. Fox Stars in and Produces the New LMN Thriller “The Wrong Housemaid” 
Three Women Fighting to Preserve an Important Slavery Exhibit in Philadelphia 
63-Year-Old Black Athlete/ Track Star is Running Faster Than She Did in Her 50s 
14-Year-Old Black CEO Launches Youth Entrepreneurship Summit and $10K Pitch Competition 
Founder Rejects $15K Offer for Breakthrough Patent-Pending Software 
NAACP President & CEO “Hoping for a Swift and Fair Senate Confirmation of Loretta Lynch for U.S. Attorney General”
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Scammers Lurking To Trap Last-Minute Super Bowl Ticket Buyers, Warns Better Business Bureau
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AARP Encouraged by Newly Announced Health Care Delivery and Payment Reforms
AARPÂ CEOÂ Jo Ann Jenkins highlights "...he real possibility of staying healthier and reducing costs, while also strengthening Medicare." WASHINGTON,...
Clergy Coalition Kicks Off Souls to the Polls Campaign Pushing Early Voting
By Chinta Strausberg With the goal of signing up a minimum of 100 churches in Chicago, a faith based coalition...
Top 10 Black History Month Scholarships for February 2015
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- February is here again, and Black History month is being celebrated all around the country and even...
Grassroot Support Builds For Candidates Seeking to Give Voice to Neighborhood Residents
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Statement by President Obama on International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
President Barack Obama's Statement: On the tenth International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau,...
Kirk Introduces Bipartisan Bill Improving Health Care and Providing Jobs for Veterans
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Father Goyo Visits Chicago to Talk About State of Mexico and Human Rights Crisis
Goyo's 18-day U.S. speaking tour includes stops in LA, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., New York, Arizona and Dallas Father...
Oprah, Kerry Washington Among Celebrities to Present at ‘The 46th NAACP Image Awards’
Common, Angela Bassett, Chadwick Boseman, Laurence Fishburne, Sharon Leal, David Oyelowo, Gina Rodriguez, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Larenz Tate, Kerry Washington, and...