By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Black America needs more good news and positive news. Too often headlines in American media have the proclivity...
By Savannah Harris Special to the NNPA News Wire Service from the HU News Service WASHINGTON — House Democrats, including California Congresswoman Barbara Lee, came to...
By Courtne Dixon Special to the NNPA News Wire Service from HU News Service WASHINGTON – The Black Lives Matter movement, who many have embraced and...
[ESPN.COM] – Flip Saunders, who tallied more than 1,000 victories over a 35-year coaching career that included successful stops with the Minnesota Timberwolves and Detroit Pistons,...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.” –Theodore Roosevelt “History is important....
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist In contrast to the more entertaining Republican presidential candidate debates, the first Democratic presidential candidate debate was more absorbing. We heard...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The CNN Democratic debate was nothing short of embarrassing, insulting, and dismissive of Black people. While the men did not wear...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist On Friday, September 25, 2015 America lost a special leader. I have had the pleasure of working with three of...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The old adage, ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same’ seems somehow an apt description for what a...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist It has been both interesting and unsettling to watch the attacks from the political Right on the Black Lives Matter...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The Civil Rights Movement in the United States identified a long list of issues that were broadly considered the...
By Phill Wilson NNPA Columnist The world lost a hero, the AIDS community lost a leader, the Black AIDS community lost a giant and many of...
(Miss Open) – “These are the things that make women self conscious, that create the unrealistic ideals of beauty that we have,” Zendaya said on Instagram...
By Grace Boateng Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Houston Forward Times We are gathered here today not to discuss the 20th Anniversary of...
By D. Kevin McNeir Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer When Baltimore native and Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake, 45, stepped to the podium at...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Contributing Writer For the nation’s automakers, diversity is measured in colors and it’s better to be a solid green than a...
(Yahoo) – Ending months of will-he-won’t-he speculation, Vice President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he is not running for president in 2016, saying the process of...
HOUSTON — A 22-year-old Houston man has been charged with murder and aggravated assault in the shooting death of a Texas Southern University freshman and the...
By Tyler Doggett and Jeffrey Boney Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Houston Forward Times On Friday, October 9, Texas Southern University (TSU), a...
By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American Special to the NNPA News Wire from The St. Louis American Hundreds packed into a church in Bridgeton...
