By TaNoah Morgan Special to the NNPA WASHINGTON (NNPA ) – This summer, my daughter turned 13, and after she’d spent two years at an...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – “There is a ‘state of emergency’ without urgency in Black America,” writes Ron Daniels, president of the...
By ArnE Williams Special to the NNPA from the Arizona Informant President Obama emphasized that good jobs with good wages and a home to call your...
[LAS VEGAS SUN] President Barack Obama will become the first U.S. leader in three decades to attack another nation without robust international support or in direct...
by Layla Garms Special to the NNPA from the Winston-Salem Chronicle Celebrity Chef Paula Deen lost her television show and millions of dollars in endorsements; Philadelphia...
[LOS ANGELES TIMES] When Berto Solis and Nancy Thuvanuti met, nobody thought they would last, he remembers. She was a New Jersey girl with Thai and...
By Wendell Hutson Special to the NNPA from the Chicago Crusader After initially saying its long-term plans were not to replace neighborhood schools with charter schools,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After repeatedly praising Dr. Martin Luther King., Jr., for leading a movement in the 1950s and...
Don't miss the 2013 West Coast Expo! Job fairs, youth business camps, health screenings, food, and entertainment await you at the LA Convention Center on Sept...
By Eric E. Vickers Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American If Islam is ever to be understood and appreciated by Americans, then Muslims...
[UPI] The U.S. Justice Department says in a legal filing leaders of an atheist group qualify for the same housing tax exemption priests receive. The paradoxical...
[REUTERS] A program including self-monitoring, gym access and occasional counseling calls helped black women maintain their weight in a new study. Black women who are overweight...
[THE TAMPA TRIBUNE] There’s been a big shift in how many school districts take money from soda companies and ban junk food from vending machines, health...
[REUTERS] More than one in 10 children had a stutter by age four in a new Australian study, but those kids scored just as high or...
Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender There is a huge difference between a fruit smoothie you blend up at home and the concoctions you...
Today is the day that the working parents should know that you are appreciated. Working parents in particular struggle to meet the hardest demands of every...
By Sandra Jordan Special to the NNPA from The St. Louis American Keon Gilbert, assistant professor in the College for Public Health and Social Justice at...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Now that we’ve had two events at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington,...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist On August 28, on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “Dream” oration,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington is an important event not only because it recalls a landmark era...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The 1963 March on Washington was a pivotal moment for African Americans, a day when people joined to fight for jobs,...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Fifty years to the day that Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps...
