By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When John and Ann started working on January 1, 2013, John had an immediate advantage. Because women earn 77 cents...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Could you use an additional $24,000 in your yearly wages? How about nearly $19,000? Or even just another $11,000 to...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Covering the three-day celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act at the University of Texas last...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist One of the best kept secrets over the past 50 years is that, proportionately, Republicans in Congress supported passage of the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist When I first heard the news, my response was one of both outrage and a calm lack of surprise....
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Affluent Americans would do quite well. But for tens of millions of others, the Ryan plan is a path...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist ...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “. . . We see repeated efforts in Congress in recent years to take resources away from poor and...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Major League Baseball’s home run king, Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron has just knocked another one out of the park. ...
By Everett Glenn NNPA Guest Columnist The recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision granting Northwestern University football players the right to unionize, if upheld,...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As 21st Century employers continue to seek a highly-trained workforce, the marketable value of a college education has never been higher....
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Racial discrimination does exist in this world but certainly not at the level it did prior to the Civil Rights...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist An Expensive Invitation Dear Alma, Three years after my divorce I met a really nice man. I am 34 years...
By Terry Collins Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Samsung Electronics will add two safeguards to its latest smartphone in an effort to deter rampant...
[The Huffington Post] Starting now, Twitter will look a lot more like Facebook. Sorry, folks. On Tuesday, Twitter introduced a much more photo-centric redesign displaying a...
By Matti Huuhtanen Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Nokia has received regulatory approval from Chinese authorities to sell its mobile phone unit to Microsoft Corp.,...
[MASHABLE.COM] Marissa Mayer may soon take a break from acquiring companies and instead acquire some TV shows. Yahoo is “close” to ordering four high-quality online TV...
By Boubacar Diallo and Sarah DiLorenzo Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Ebola could continue to spread in West Africa for months in one of the...
By Peter Leonard Associated Press DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s prime minister went on a charm offensive Friday as he visited the country’s southeast, pledging...
