By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “The findings represent a tipping point for blacks, who for much of American history were disenfranchised and then effectively barred from...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I was flipping through the TV channels last week and came across one of Spike Lee’s best movies, School Daze. This...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist President Obama has named Melvin L. Watt (D-N.C.) as overseer of government-backed mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But,...
[REUTERS] The ranks of lobbyists are growing in Washington again as Congress flirts with a possible overhaul of the complex U.S. tax code. After declining for...
[THE NEW YORK TIMES] WASHINGTON — Since the recession ended four years ago, the federal budget deficit has topped $1 trillion every year. But now the government’s annual...
[NNPA NEWS WIRE SERVICE] By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black workers are 19 percent more likely to join unions than non-Black...
[LA Times] Hip-hop star Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine are donating $70 million to USC for a new academy that they say will give...
ATLANTA, May 15 (UPI) — Comedian Steve Harvey kicked off his fourth season as host of the game show “Family Feud” in Atlanta Wednesday, the show’s producers...
LOS ANGELES, May 14 (UPI) — Canadian rapper Drake was nominated Tuesday for 12 BET Awards, including Best Male Hip Hop Artist and Video of the Year....
[CHICAGO TRIBUNE] Kids and teens who are born abroad and immigrate to the United States are about half as likely to have asthma and allergies as...
[ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH] The average sticker price to get a pacemaker at Des Peres Hospital is $74,953. About eight miles away, at St. Luke’s Hospital, it’s...
[UPI] Low cognition hinders U.S. seniors’ Medicare choices and it calls into question potential effectiveness of a Medicare voucher system, researchers say. Senior author Michael McWilliams...
[THE SACRAMENTO BEE] ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When Lalo Alcaraz learned this week that Disney was seeking to trademark “Dia de los Muertos,” the name of the traditional...
[UPI] China has approved U.S. automaker General Motors’ plan to build a $1.3 billion plant in Shanghai, the official media said. Xinhua News Agency, quoting the...
[BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK] While most of the folks at McDonald’s (MCD) are selling burgers, some are busy putting out fires. In just the past six weeks or so, Massachusetts...
[THE NEW YORK TIMES] Some 96,000 borrowers who received checks to compensate them for wrongful foreclosures on their mortgages will be getting an additional check to correct for...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist When some of us saw the first video of Charles Ramsey, the colorful Black dishwasher in Cleveland who is...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist When the FBI announced that they were placing fugitive Assata Shakur (Joanne Chesimard) on the list of most wanted terrorists...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When Beyonce Knowles sang the Etta James song “At Last” at President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, the song could have...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Dudley Randall’s poem, “It seems to me, said Booker T, I disagree, said W.E.B.” points out an issue that has plagued...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Last year, James Porter, the recently-elected president of the National Rifle Association, declared that President Obama was a “fake...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist President Obama recently nominated Melvin (Mel) Watt, a long-time North Carolina Congressman, to direct the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)....
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist I’ve often debated with myself over the obvious ramifications the Hip Hop lifestyle imposes on society. Still, I proudly raise...
By Stella J. Adams NNPA Guest Columnist Private-equity firms, hedge funds and other Wall Street investors are seeking to develop a Real Estate Owned (REO)– to-...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Raise your eyes now, and look from the place where you are…for all the land that you see I...
