By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) report on the Ferguson, Mo. Police Department sheds a brighter light on...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) report on the Ferguson, Mo. Police Department sheds a brighter light on...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Ever since President Bill Clinton apologized for the Tuskegee syphilis “experiment” in 1997, we have heard calls for apologies from...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Ever since President Bill Clinton apologized for the Tuskegee syphilis “experiment” in 1997, we have heard calls for apologies from...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Financial stress can feel like a lonely struggle. But according to a new report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I remember reading a piece by a right-wing think-tank in 1990 calling for the privatization of the postal service. Their...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist As a child growing up in Africa, one of the first history lessons I learned was about leaders of anti-colonial...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The NBA family has lost one of its patriarchs. Earl Lloyd, the first African-American to play in an NBA...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist The NBA trade deadline for the 2014-15 season expired on Thursday, February 19 at 3 p.m., and was followed by...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The communications network of the National Black Chamber of Commerce has evolved along with the Internet. When we first...
By Stephany Rose NNPA Guest Columnist In the Christian faith, the Syrophoenician woman’s testimony is one of the most popular narratives in the gospels. She...
By Stephany Rose NNPA Guest Columnist In the Christian faith, the Syrophoenician woman’s testimony is one of the most popular narratives in the gospels. She...
By Wellington Webb NNPA Guest Columnist I served as Mayor of Denver from 1991 to 2003 and was the only mayor in U.S. history to...
By Wellington Webb NNPA Guest Columnist I served as Mayor of Denver from 1991 to 2003 and was the only mayor in U.S. history to...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Is Raymond Wilford, a 26-year-old Black Seattle resident, not dead or seriously injured only because the White mall security...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Congressman Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) couldn’t bring his French bulldog, Lily, on an Amtrak train. So when Amtrak funding came up...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Dear Alma, Ok, I was with a police officer for 10 years. He did some awful things in our relationship....
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The protest slogans addressing our latest struggle for justice and equity compel me to come up with a new...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist After ceremonies wrap up Sunday in Alabama commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the signing of...
By Matthew C. Whitaker NNPA Guest Columnist Black History Month is over, but we should move past the standardized foci and platitudes that mark our commemoration....
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist One day in late February 1965, an interracial group of 29 university students rode into a small, segregated town...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist It is important for all people of African descent throughout the world to be ever conscious and...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “A new expression has entered the Westminster lexicon: dog-whistle politics. It means putting out a message that, like...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist One of my sheroes is Sojourner Truth. A brilliant but illiterate woman, she was a great orator and powerful...
By Lisa Gissendaner NNPA Guest Columnist Whitney Richards Callathes – a young person navigating the difficulties she confronts as a woman of color and an...