By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist For someone who seems to revel in being silent during the Supreme Court’s traditionally lively oral arguments – when...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist I call it The Hip Hop Dilemma. The symptoms are all around us. You hate the new direction Hip...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Anyone despairing that Congress can’t get anything done should note last week’s swift vote to get furloughed air traffic...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – When Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress comrades were plotting to overthrow the White...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The Senate’s Gang of Eight have put together an 844-page monstrosity known as the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week, I had to make one of the most difficult announcements of my life—I told my family that I...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist According to a new research report, America’s racial wealth gaps will persist until public policy reforms provide every family the...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist I believe our future is in good hands, despite what recent news headlines would have us otherwise believe. You are...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The Obama administration is preparing for an expansion of U.S. military involvement into areas from which it should keep...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist “Brighter days are ahead.” “The check is being put in the mail.” That is what the Republicans seem to be...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist Recently, 400,000 poor and underserved Louisianans, many them people of color, were shut out of potentially life-saving health insurance...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist “Oh, what wicked webs they weave.” The Affordable Care Act, a/k/a Obamacare, is starting to raise its ugly head. ...
Media Alice Hartnett Jim Seitz 704.715-9115 Alice.hartnett@wellsfargo.com 612.316.2447 jim.seitz@wellsfargo.com Wells Fargo Small Business Index: Business Owners Express Slightly More Optimism in April, Say Attracting Customers...
Another Viewpoint by Tim Lacy Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper I have been enjoying the rewards of retirement and no schedule to meet,...
by Kenneth Miller Special to the NNPA from the Los Angeles Sentinel Former Lakers Coach Mike Brown New Cleveland Coach Says L.A. Not Fair Mike Brown...
Special to the NNPA from The Key Newsjournal Jockey Kevin Krigger will ride Goldencents in the 2013 Kentucky Derby KENTUCKY – Black jockeys Kevin Krigger and...
(Reuters) – With his fight for tighter gun control measures defeated and prospects for a deficit reduction pact dim, President Barack Obama sought on Tuesday to project an...
by Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although President Obama has yet to declare an end to the 40-year-old war on drugs, he has...
[The Washington Post] In his column on GOP immigration fears — namely, that Republicans will follow the path of 2007 and blow their chance at reform...
[ABC News] Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. US News | Entertainment News | More ABC News Videos A Florida judge questioned George Zimmerman today...
Jesse Jackson honored in South Africa (Photo by Butch Wing). by George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PRETORIA, South Africa (NNPA) – Human rights activist Jesse L....
by Larry Miller and Ayana Jones Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – What started out as a respectful article critical of...
by Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Department of Health and Human Services has updated its standards for cultural competency in health care,...
by Danny L. White Special to the NNPA from the Arizona Informant The Maricopa Branch NAACP is investigating and questioning whether or not a 14 year...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call The latest to feel public pressure is former prison guard-turned rapper Rick Ross, who also...