By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The day before she died, Maya Angelou telephoned Ebony magazine headquarters in Chicago to tell new editor-in-chief Mitzi...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Many people will remember Maya Angelou for her phenomenal career. She was a true renaissance woman – an author, teacher, dancer, performer, radio...
By Cassiette West-Williams Special to the NNPA The news of Maya Angelou’s death brought a very poignant memory back to my college days, when I...
By Benjamin F. Chavis NNPA Columnist Millions of people throughout the world continue to pause, to remember, to celebrate and to recommit to the living...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist A new posting by MediaMatters.org, the media watchdog group, sums up the conservative strategy under the headline, “Don’t Litigate It,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist At first glance, one might be hard-pressed to think that a recent opinion piece on the 1970s origins of...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Last week, Google made the bold and necessary decision to release information about their employment diversity, detailing the race...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Since the economic crash of 2008, I think everyone has had to make adjustments – except the federal government –...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist When my brother friend Dr. Vincent Harding passed away May 19 at age 82, we lost a beloved historian,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Imagine the U.S. dollar being worthless. Picture millionaires and billionaires becoming “thousand-aires” overnight. Think about the possibility of 200 million U.S. citizens...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist If there was one key lesson from the recession it is that financial services need effective regulation. It took billions...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist It’s gonna be hell up in Harlem this month. The race for New York’s 13th Congressional District’s Democratic primary has the once...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I am deeply concerned by the sorts of emails and hard-mail communications that I have been receiving from you folks. The...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “When I become mayor, we all become mayor.” – Ras Baraka, new mayor of Newark, N.J. Add Newark to the list...
By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist Several years ago, I had the pleasure of serving on a panel with the angriest racially-conscious White man in America,...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Presidential Program for the Development of the Afro-Colombian Population – that is the name of the program to empower...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Teen Wants to Chill with ‘Boyfriend’ Dear Alma, My 17-year old-daughter claims she has a boyfriend. I said no u...
By Luke Charles Harris Special to the NNPA News Service I’ve been told I should be the first among many to celebrate President Obama’s My...
Media Veronica Clemons Wells Fargo 704-715-5145 [email protected] Nicole Kenney NAACP 202-478-6409 [email protected] Latraviette D. Smith-Wilson National Urban League 212-558-5433 [email protected] DES MOINES, Iowa – May 29,...
KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two health organizations filed a complaint with federal health officials Thursday alleging some Florida insurance companies are...
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A technology for extracting drinkable water from manure is on its way to commercial application this year, Michigan State University...
(The Week) – “Amazon is confirming its critics’ worst fears,” said Farhad Manjoo at The New York Times. While the online retailing giant “has marketed itself as...
(The Telegraph) – Richard Branson’s dream of commercial space flights took a step nearer reality after Virgin Galactic signed a deal with US aviation authorities...
BISWAJEET BANERJEE, Associated Press LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Two teenage sisters in rural India were raped and killed by attackers who hung their bodies from a...
