By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The other night I listened to a South Carolina state legislator announce his support for pulling down the Confederate...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist There’s a lesson to be learned from the Confederate flag quickly and unexpectedly falling into disfavor following the murder...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “A house divided against itself cannot stand…I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not...
By Matthew C. Whitaker NNPA Guest Columnist On Wednesday, June 17, Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old White supremacist, massacred nine Black worshipers in the historic Emanuel...
By Robert McWhirter NNPA Guest Columnist The church shooting in Charleston, S.C. once again showed us the connection of guns and race. Statistics of inner city gun...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist My late mother’s favorite hymn was “Amazing Grace.” Her favorite version was sung by the great Mahalia Jackson. Oh,...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Each year the many forms and products of predatory lending drain at minimum hundreds of billions of dollars from the...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Now there are some ‘practical’ things we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Has the pernicious fiction that there was something honorable about the Confederate rebellion–treason in the defense of slavery, as...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Though the keynote address was delivered 163 years ago in Rochester, N.Y. on the significance of the 4th...