The last thing Bernal E. Smith II said to his wife, Towanda, was "I gotchu!"
It was a two-word slang response to her very playful reminder that he only had about a month left to get a new pair of...
Police in Tampa, Fla. have apprehended a man believed to be connected to four killings that have raised fears of a serial killer in the Seminole Heights neighborhood.
According to WTSP-TV, 24-year-old Howell Emanuel Donaldson III is being charged with...
The Battle of the Blowhards between everybody’s loud-ass uncle and white America’s racist grandpa has reached a fever pitch. LaVar Ball’s unwillingness to bow down to Donald Trump has spurred an endless stream of media reports and interviews, prompting...
Rep. John Conyers, who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for more than 50 years, said this week that he was not going to resign his seat over accusations of sexually harassing female staffers.
But on Sunday, Conyers...
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from an African-American attorney who called the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag "an official endorsement of white supremacy."
The justices did not...
By Cardell Orrin
Before-and-after success stories work because they’re shorthand for transformation. So when former youth offenders took the stage during a youth voice portion of the recent University of Memphis Public Safety Institute “Breaking the Cycle of Delinquency” symposium,...
Late 2010, Tammy Coleman received a devastating phone call from a close friend that forever changed her life.
“She told me she had two years to live,” said Coleman. “When she told me it was from breast cancer, I literally...
By Cash Michaels (The Wilmington Journal/NNPA Member)
In an exclusive interview with The Wilmington Journal, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, the president of Repairers of the Breach, a nonpartisan, nonprofit social advocacy group, has confirmed that he and a...
A while back the Memphis City Council gave an early embrace to a proposed ordinance directing Mayor Jim Strickland’s administration to come up with a plan to immediately get the statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis out...
Bishop Charles E. Blake Sr., the Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ, and Saki S. Middleton, the President of John Stanley, Inc. commenced construction on a 77-unit affordable rental townhome family project on Wednesday.
The project is...