By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) found that many of the same types of loan servicing problems...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The strike of football players at the legendary Grambling State University received attention across the world. GSU President Frank...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist I recently visited a Hip Hop 101 class on the campus of Temple University in Philadelphia and was enlightened by the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “In the 1960s, when my grandfather was teaching me to drive in his little red Ford Falcon, there was an...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I have never seen so much venom, evil and dishonesty coming from a presidential administration as the one we...
NNPA Guest Columnist Having spent my youth and adult years actively engaged in civil rights advocacy, not much surprises me when I hear of incidents...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Rather than gloat over the Republicans getting their clocks cleaned in the government shutdown fiasco, it’s worth Blacks taking time to...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Should I Get Involved or Mind my Business? Dear Alma, A male friend of mine moved to my city for a 6-month...
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California community is anguished over the fatal shooting by a deputy of a popular, 13-year-old boy who had been...
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Contractors who built the web portal for the Obama administration’s health insurance marketplace said Thursday...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Believe it or not, President Obama’s decision to finally stand up to Teapublicans – a Republican Party hijacked by...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Now that the GOP-manufactured economic crisis is over (for the several months, anyway), one might say the lesson for the...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist An adage advises that one man’s pain is another man’s gain. As consumers nationwide struggle to recover financially from the Great...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The brilliant surgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson is out of order and out of control when he compares the Affordable Care Act...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “At a moment when President Obama and Republican leaders remain deeply divided, this week saw them come to a bipartisan...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist [We found that] if we created the right wraparound programs, the right preschool programs that were strong enough and rigorous...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Was the book 1984 by George Orwell a required school reading for you? If it was you would know that Orwell introduced Big...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Two weeks ago, I was sent a video of a Hispanic woman interrupting a speech by Jeff Stratton, president of...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist There has never been a political climate like this in modern times. We are now in an era of constant...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.” – Samuel Cornish and John B....
Employees Began Returning Thursday By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Barack Obama signed a bill into law early Thursday morning that ended...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Four months after the Supreme Court declined to invalidate affirmative action in a case brought against the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Dr. Ben Carson became the darling of conservatives earlier this year by stridently attacking the Affordable Care Act with...
By Stephanie J. Jones NNPA Columnist Dear Speaker Boehner: It’s hard to know whether to feel pity or disgust for you as we watch...
