Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American Last week Fantasia Barrino raised a stink after Jet Magazine chose to use a 10 year old picture...
by Alexis Taylor Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Proving their actions can be just rank as their name, The Onion, an online news source...
by Alexis Taylor Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Suggesting that he has what it takes to hold his own outside of the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Even after the White House and Congress stagger to reach a last-minute deal to avert yet another budget crisis,...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist In the midst of the Academy Awards drama on Sunday, February 24, one of the Onion’s writers (we don’t know...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Within a matter of days late last month, four controversies erupted that acutely underscore the crux of Black Americans continuing...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Our minds fasten on that single moment on the bus — Mrs. Parks alone in that seat, clutching her...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist It’s time to man up – I was wrong about Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. First, some background. I wrote a...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist March is the official month to “discuss” women and it could not arrive too soon. What is sad about both...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In today’s struggling economy, many consumers find themselves short on cash. When consumers seek a credit remedy, one particular lender...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Did you know that tens of thousands of new products are introduced to consumer markets around the world every...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Legal Shield was first known as PrePaid Legal and that is where this story begins. This...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist GEO Group “is a terrible company with a well-publicized track record of abuse and neglect and FAU should be ashamed to...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Why do Black Americans allow the war on drugs’ unfair toll on people of color to continue? Instead of putting a stop...
By John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. NNPA Guest Columnist Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, the first African American president of Howard University, had a keen and prophetic understanding...
Cars and Bikes Share the Roads in China. (Photo by Ann Ragland/NNPA) by George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief (SECOND IN THE SERIES) BEIJING (NNPA) – When...
With 1.3 billion people in China, residents in urban areas live in high-rise apartments similar to this one in Beijing(Photo by Ann Ragland/NNPA). First grade students...
“We didn’t miss cellphones, but the way that we went about it didn’t allow us to get the leadership. It’s clearly a mistake,” Gates, Microsoft’s former...
Some Apple followers have begun worrying that the company has lost the secret formula that made it so successful during the Steve Jobs era. But instead...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb. 17 (UPI) — Overall happiness and satisfaction with life tend to increase with age, but a person’s well-being depends on when he or...
A global corps of flu scientists are already planning next year’s vaccine while a cadre of investigators is taking an even bolder step — racing to...
One day last October, more than 100 congressional staffers crammed into a room on the second floor of the Rayburn House Office Building to listen to...
The labor market is healing faster for immigrants than for U.S.-born workers as the growing economy favors those at the low and high ends of the...
The death of Lakers owner Jerry Buss on Monday sparked an outpouring of support and respect for the man credited with the invention of Showtime and...