By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The recent deaths of more than a thousand African refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in order to...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As the wealthy few continue to prosper, the rest of the nation is caught in a financial tug-of-war between stagnant...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist The revolutionary and iconic stance of the great Muhammad Ali rang in my mind this morning as I woke up...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist One of the few shining stars of our nation’s economy, the $812-billion chemistry business, is working with Congress to...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “It is one measure of the depth and insidiousness of American racism that the nation ignores the rage of...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Freddie Gray, 25, was racially profiled and then chased down by the Baltimore police officers. He subsequently...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist A Dangerous Sister Act Dear Alma, My sister and I are very close. We’re only three years apart. Although not...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist A Dangerous Sister Act Dear Alma, My sister and I are very close. We’re only three years apart. Although not...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Now it is Baltimore. There Freddie Gray, a Black man, was stopped on the street, pinned to the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist It’s the academic version of the world heavyweight championship boxing matches between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier in Zaire...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Since the moment that he announced his candidacy in 2007, through to this day, there have been two debates...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist You know their names – Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice – because these African American men were unarmed and...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “America leads the world in shocks.” Those immortal words were spoken by the late Gil Scott-Heron during the Nixon “H2O...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist More than 88,000 people have applied to enter the “poor door” at a new luxury condominium tower on the...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much;...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Consumers harmed by Green Tree Servicing, LLC, a major mortgage servicer, won an important victory. Joint enforcement actions by the...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The reputations of Bill and Hillary Clinton have become legendary. It goes back to their days in Arkansas where...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist After a 166-day partisan political struggle in the U.S. Senate to confirm the first Black American woman to be...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Glenn Ford, 64, convicted of murder in 1984, spent a quarter-century on the death row of Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Glenn Ford, 64, convicted of murder in 1984, spent a quarter-century on the death row of Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Mama taking over the Wedding Hey, Alma – My friend is getting married, I’m in the wedding and I couldn’t...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Mama taking over the Wedding Hey, Alma – My friend is getting married, I’m in the wedding and I couldn’t...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist When the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act nearly two years ago in...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When a colleague dropped the line, “You can’t hashtag your way to freedom,” I loved it! I laughed out loud,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Who can I turn to, when nobody needs me? My heart wants to know, and so I must go where destiny...