By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Nigeria, Africa’s so-called giant and the world’s biggest Black nation, is in the news again. And as usual, much of...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Nigeria has the largest Black population in the world – 178 million. Within that population are 300 differing ethnic...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist We need to see beyond petty insults. The fact that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) chose to invite Israeli...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As the annual, month-long Black History observance begins, now is a timely moment to reflect on the journey that previous...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Diversity is basically a description of independence. Diversity is what moves the ball for me, and I thought ‘give...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Diversity is basically a description of independence. Diversity is what moves the ball for me, and I thought ‘give...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist It is a national moral disgrace that there are 14.7 million poor children and 6.5 million extremely poor children...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist It is a national moral disgrace that there are 14.7 million poor children and 6.5 million extremely poor children...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist A year ago, I went to see Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), who happens to be...
Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered a moving message to a packed audience this past Sunday at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church in Richmond. Rev. Jackson...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist If you read most of what was reported on the visit of 11 members of the Congressional Black Caucus...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist At age 36, superstar Los Angeles Lakers basketball player, Kobe Bryant, is apparently at the end of his rope. On...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Sam Cooke’s early 1960s pop tune, “Don’t Know Much About History,” was a big hit on the charts. Unfortunately,...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Her progressive ideas are just what we need while Hilary Clinton is straddling the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Her progressive ideas are just what we need while Hilary Clinton is straddling the...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist A Tough Call Dear Alma, I’m friends with my next door neighbor. She’s not my BFF, but we hang from...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist A Tough Call Dear Alma, I’m friends with my next door neighbor. She’s not my BFF, but we hang from...
“We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back,” said Dr. Martin...
Patrick McGroarty, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL JOHANNESBURG (The Wall Street Journal)—Companies and government officials are illegally moving as much as $60 billion out of Africa...
Patrick McGroarty, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL JOHANNESBURG (The Wall Street Journal)—Companies and government officials are illegally moving as much as $60 billion out of Africa...
Jillian Berman, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—When McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson officially steps down in March, there will be just four black CEOs in the Fortune...
Jillian Berman, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—When McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson officially steps down in March, there will be just four black CEOs in the Fortune...
Dave Zirin, THE NATION (The Nation)—Conspiracy theories abound in US history, a way to explain the unexplainable in a nation with massive gaps in wealth...
Ralph Ellis, Greg Botelho, and John Newsome, CNN ATLANTA (CNN)—Two days after she was found facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub full of water at her...
Ralph Ellis, Greg Botelho, and John Newsome, CNN ATLANTA (CNN)—Two days after she was found facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub full of water at her...