Category: National

The FBI has joined the search for a 14-year-old girl who was kidnapped early Tuesday from her home in an Atlanta suburb by two armed men during a home invasion.

Aaron Alexis — the man authorities say is responsible for killing 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard — told Newport, Rhode Island, police last month that an individual “had sent three people to follow him and to talk, keep him awake and send vibrations into his body,” according to a police report.

Leadership, launched a national campaign to put an end to the for-profit private prison system. Through extensive and direct outreach, the campaign is asking investors and board members of for-profit prison companies to divest themselves of that business practice—or face being held publicly accountable.

Racist taunts against Italy’s first Black cabinet minister, Cecile Kyenge, took another ugly turn when someone hurled bananas at her during a rally.

As evident by the new August unemployment numbers, African Americans continue to suffer significantly higher rates of joblessness, and an event held Friday and Saturday at Holman United Methodist Church and in Leimert Park turned a spotlight on what is being called a crisis in Los Angeles.

If you take the long view—and by “long view” we’re talking 10 days—there have been three distinct paths the United States could have taken on Syria.

No charges will be filed against George Zimmerman after an alleged altercation with his estranged wife and her father, Lake Mary, Florida, Police Chief Steve Bracknell said Monday.

A state-run outreach campaign designed to educate Californians about the federal Obamacare program has failed to include Black media outlets in the mix, Black activists say.

A report by Bloomberg Rankings pegs the New Orleans area, including neighbors Metairie and Kenner, as No. 2 on a list of “Top 12 American Boomtowns.”

Here is a look at some national events honoring the memory of those lost in the 9/11 terror attacks.