By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The selection of Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the next leader of the Catholic Church was, in some ways,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist There are some painful things from my childhood in segregated Tuscaloosa, Ala., that I will never forget. At the...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As Black America continues to struggle with high unemployment rates, a new research report by Demos, a public policy organization...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist As a result of Ohio’s Republican Senator Rob Portman’s declaration last week that he now supports homosexual marriage, I am...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The other day I found myself engaged in a casual discussion with someone next to me on an airplane. ...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist As I write, Chaka Khan’s empowering “I’m Every Woman” loops in my head – like a soundtrack. (By the way,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist On March 4 Oberlin College in Ohio, which has always had an outsized role in the history of Black...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “It will not be sufficient for Morehouse College, for any college, for that matter, to produce clever graduates, men...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist This is the beginning of a series of articles about street gangs in our nation. Gone are the days...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “We’re here to let the community, and particularly teenagers, know that they have a right to walk in peace...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist The Presidential Medal of Freedom is bestowed by the president of the United States and is – along with the...
Dr. Ben Chavis Speaks About NNPA and Wilmington 10 Pardon
[NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER] Though attitudes are changing slowly, many people still don’t like to talk about mental illness. Yet, the National Institute of Mental Health reports...
[THE CALL AND POST] A COMMENTARY BY MIESHA WILSON – In my field of weight management, 90 percent of the participants I come in contact with are...
[THE CALL AND POST] As for one of those little nuances that works your last nerve, you can check shedding hair off the list. Shedding hair...
[CNNMONEY] A handful of colleges think they’ve found the secret to closing the gap between the types of graduates they’re turning out and the types of...
[THE NEW YORK CARIB NEWS] The Center for Community and Ethnic Media, which is housed at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, is releasing a report...
[ROLLING OUT] Imagine finally meeting your birth mother and asking the question that every adopted child asks — after “Why did you give me up?” —...
Composer and producer Ray Chew, also an accomplished keyboardist, is in his third season as musical director of “American Idol.” — SUBMITTED PHOTO Having put his...
With the proliferation of Black TV networks — partly as a result of Com-cast/NBC Universal’s backing a number of minority start ups following diversity pressure from...
Lenny Kravitz is out – and Jesse L. Martin is in to portray iconic soul singer Marvin Gaye in the Julien Temple produced, “Sexual Healing.” According...
Suge Knight recently appeared on the Howard Stern show and he had some really crazy things to say about Dr. Dre, as he accuses the good...
