By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) LOS ANGELES — Eight hundred Southern California businesses have joined thousands of entrepreneurs across the country in an initiative...
By Harry Colbert, Jr. (Insight News/NNPA Member) No one is better equipped to tell your story better than you. And logic stands to reason that no...
By James Washington (The Dallas Weekly/NNPA Member) Invariably as a Christian, the notion of Satan will come up and that conversation can range from soup to...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Despite a cavalcade of political distractions and a legal battle over immigration, President Trump appears to be focused on...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) I love Black History, and so revel in Black History Month. Not that Black History should be constrained to a...
By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. (Founder, Rainbow PUSH Coalition) Donald Trump’s first three weeks in office have left Americans reeling from what Republican speechwriter Peggy Noonan...
Racial Wealth Gap Could Close with Systemic Public Policy Reforms, says New Research By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) As 2017’s Black History observances unfold in...
By Edward Henderson (San Diego Voice and Viewpoint/NNPA Member) First dates can be nerve-racking, but every once and a while, you get swept off your feet...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Cornell Belcher, the CEO of Brilliant Corners Research, said that it’s no surprise that Black voters have presented a...
By Freddie Allen (Managing Editor, NNPA Newswire) The Black unemployment rate continued to improve falling from 7.8 percent in December to 7.7 percent in January, according...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The National Newspaper Publishers Association has been named the 2017 Organization of the Year at the annual Driven Awards....
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Dear President Trump, I don’t know why I have become the repository for the frustrations among Black Republicans across the...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) As a progressive who worked hard to help get Secretary Hillary Clinton elected, it is challenging for me to accept...
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, My wife is vicious with a capital “V!” We were married for eight years and over that...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Each year, the Census Bureau recognizes Black History Month by releasing up-to-date statistics that reveal the total Black population,...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) When many consumers think of billion-dollar industries, banks and Wall Street often come to mind. Yet there is another industry...
By Danny J. Bakewell, Jr. (Executive Editor, Los Angeles Sentinel) Congressman Cedric Richmond has been a congressman in New Orleans for the past six years. During...
By Patricia Maryland, Dr.PH (NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist) In my years working in healthcare, I have been blessed to see patients celebrate happy moments, but I...
By Angelo C. Louw (NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist) Those of us working in HIV prevention have always believed that the spread of the virus was largely...
By Erick Johnson (The Chicago Crusader/NNPA Member) He’s been dead for more than 60 years. Buried with Emmett Till was the truth to what led to...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) The mark of a brilliant actor is that he or she can give a compelling performance even in a...
By Anitra Brown (Managing Editor, The New Orleans Tribune) Late last year, “The New York Times” and “The Washington Post” criticized the National Association for the...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In 2016, Janet Uthman was named to Ebony magazine’s Power 100, a distinction handed out to such notable African-American...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The job of a lifetime is something most aspire to but, for some, the fantasy simply is much too...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Every day that he holds the presidency, Donald Trump does something outrageous. He blusters, he just plain lies, and he...