By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist We need to see beyond petty insults. The fact that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) chose to invite Israeli...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As the annual, month-long Black History observance begins, now is a timely moment to reflect on the journey that previous...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Diversity is basically a description of independence. Diversity is what moves the ball for me, and I thought ‘give...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist It is a national moral disgrace that there are 14.7 million poor children and 6.5 million extremely poor children...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist A year ago, I went to see Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), who happens to be...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist If you read most of what was reported on the visit of 11 members of the Congressional Black Caucus...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist At age 36, superstar Los Angeles Lakers basketball player, Kobe Bryant, is apparently at the end of his rope. On...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Sam Cooke’s early 1960s pop tune, “Don’t Know Much About History,” was a big hit on the charts. Unfortunately,...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Her progressive ideas are just what we need while Hilary Clinton is straddling the...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist A Tough Call Dear Alma, I’m friends with my next door neighbor. She’s not my BFF, but we hang from...
Patrick McGroarty, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL JOHANNESBURG (The Wall Street Journal)—Companies and government officials are illegally moving as much as $60 billion out of Africa...
Jillian Berman, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—When McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson officially steps down in March, there will be just four black CEOs in the Fortune...
Dave Zirin, THE NATION (The Nation)—Conspiracy theories abound in US history, a way to explain the unexplainable in a nation with massive gaps in wealth...
Ralph Ellis, Greg Botelho, and John Newsome, CNN ATLANTA (CNN)—Two days after she was found facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub full of water at her...
David Jackson and Gregory Korte, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—President Obama unveiled a nearly $4 trillion budget that is “designed to bring middle class economics...
Terry Shropshire, Special from the ATLANTA DAILY WORLD (NNPA)—Johnson Publishing, the mothership company of the beleaguered yet iconic magazines Ebony and Jet has put their legendary photo archives on the...
Sam Ford, ABC 7 – WJLA WASHINGTON (WJLA.com) – Parents are furious over what they’re calling a sudden surge in teachers resigning or being fired...
Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY NEW YORK (USA Today)—It’s hard to imagine getting jazzed about an email app in this day and age. But my...
Richard Nieva, CNET (CNET.com)—For the past few quarters, Google’s finances have been the story of same-old, same-old: Desktop search — its biggest business — is...
Scott Wong and Mike Lillis, THE HILL WASHINGTON (The Hill)—Democrats may be flailing in the minority on Capitol Hill, but newly empowered Republicans have fared...
Tami Abdollah and Brian Melley, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Marion “Suge” Knight sat jailed on suspicion of murder, dueling narratives cast him...
Chris Chase, USA TODAY (USA Today)—The official time of Saturday’s women’s final at the Australian Open was one hour, 51 minutes. In reality, it ended...
Michelle Nichols and Aaron Ross, REUTERS KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters)—United Nations support for a planned military operation against Rwandan rebels in eastern Democratic Republic...
Elias Meseret, ASSOCIATED PRESS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African leaders have agreed to send 7,500 troops to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast...
Edmund Blair, REUTERS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters)—Ninety-year-old Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, one of Africa’s most divisive figures, ascended to the rotating chairmanship of the African...
