By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Prior to Sunday’s Super Bowl, I told anyone who would listen that I like both the Denver Broncos and...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist By the early 1970s, Black Americans could reasonably say they had emerged victorious from their long struggle with America’s...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I was pleased that President Obama spent so much time on the matter of economic inequality and the need...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist MSNBC’s President Phil Griffin was forced to apologize last week for an incendiary and grossly unfair tweet about conservatives. This...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama served notice in his State of the Union speech that he intends to make 2014...
By Ron Busby, Sr. NNPA Columnist There is nothing like doing what you love to do. And it’s even better when others around you share...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The State of the Union address is the only time of the year when all branches of government come together...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Income inequality” has become the political buzzword of 2014. President Obama, most recently in this week’s State of the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Carter G. Woodson, son of former slaves, pioneering Harvard-trained historian, founder of the Association for the Study of African...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The role we play in our own economic demise is mind-boggling. First, our priorities are screwed up. We place more...
By Derrick Humphries NNPA Guest Columnist Just last December, Ohio Congressmen Tim Ryan and Dave Joyce introduced legislation calling for the award of the Congressional...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist There is a movement afoot to unionize college sports. The unionizing of sports would result in college athletes being...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Keep my Nephew Away from my House Dear Alma, I know this may sound mean, but I can’t stand my...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With a largely uncooperative, highly-partisan Congress headed into a mid-term election, President Obama declared in his State...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night, parts of which were shared over the weekend, was designed...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Mid-January is the time when Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday is commemorated. Cities, towns, and colleges across the country lift...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist It’s not likely that the name of Arnold Pinkney, who died at 83 in Cleveland January 13, is widely-known...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Sports are supposed to be the great equalizer. But you wouldn’t know it judging by the news surrounding...
By Walter Fields NNPA Guest Columnist By chance I watched the NFL playoff games at the home of a friend and former college football player, Vaughn...
By Marc H. Morial NBPA Columnist “Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.” Amiri Baraka On January 9, with the passing...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Remember that movie with the Wayans Brothers? After stealing some credit cards, Damon’s character, Johnny Stewart, had everything he ever...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist More good news keeps coming for consumers in early 2014. On the heels of new mortgage rules that took effect...
By Ron Busby, Sr. NNPA Columnist The Obama administration recently launched innovative Promise Zones in five U.S. cities, committed the government to programmatic efforts to...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist In the latest urban movies, “Best Man Holiday” and “A Madea’s Christmas,” I thought it was interesting that each featured...
