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Why Aren’t We Discussing Voter Suppression During an Election Year?

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist There are many peculiar things about the 2016 election cycle, but one of them is what is not...

Hard Choices for Ben Carson on the Campaign Trail

By Armstrong Williams NNPA News Wire Columnist Dr. Ben Carson’s last place finish in the South Carolina Republican primary (he earned 7.2 percent of the total...

Film Review: Eddie The Eagle

[fvplayer src=”https://youtube.com/watch?v=hyzQjVUmIxk” splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hyzQjVUmIxk/maxresdefault.jpg”] By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic Somewhere in between the football tearjerker “Rudy” and the offbeat cult-classic Jamaican bobsled team bio...

How the Obama Presidency Exposed America’s Unchanged Ways

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Heading into Super Tuesday, Trump scores big with Christie endorsement

[YAHOO] FORT WORTH—New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie formally backed Donald Trump’s bid for the GOP presidential nomination, giving his former rival a potentially significant boost in...

Blackonomics: Hillary and Bernie Discover and Re-Discover Black People

By James Clingman NNPA News Wire Columnist One thing is for sure; Black folks are enjoying this latest political mating dance with Bernie Sanders and Hillary...

Black History: What You Should Know about the “Greensboro Six”

By Michael Dean Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Arizona Informant Recently this newspaper printed a story about the “Wilmington 10”, a group of...

Rev. Jesse Jackson Pushes for Diversity on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley

By Don Terry Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition NEW YORK CITY – At the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s recently concluded 19th...

Payday Lending Supporters Attack CFPB; Top Industry Lenders Face RICO Charges

By Charlene Crowell NNPA News Wire Columnist For years deceptive and predatory lenders have bilked millions of trusting consumers from their hard-earned monies, while consumer advocates...

Hillary Clinton Meets with Civil Rights Groups, Black Millennials

By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire Managing Editor) A few days before presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton racked up a huge win in Nevada’s Democratic primary, largely...

How Jeb Bush Was Swallowed by His Past

[BLOOMBERG] At a Jeb Bush staff meeting in the conference room of a Phoenix hotel in May, a text message popped into the phone of his...

What Does It Take to be a Successful Entrepreneur?

By Armstrong Williams NNPA News Wire Columnist Time is one of those magical dimensions of the human experience. At certain instances it seems like there is...

Does Any Presidential Candidate “Deserve” the Black Vote?

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist Michelle Alexander, the brilliant author of The New Jim Crow, writes in The Nation – that Hillary Clinton does...

Erwin Raphael Picked to Lead Hyundai’s Luxury Brand

By Jarvis Stewart Special to the NNPA News Wire from IR+Media Hyundai Motor America president and chief executive officer David L. Zuchowski announced this week Erwin...

Film Review: Race

By Dwight Brown, NNPA News Wire Film Critic “On the track, there is no Black and White, just fast and slow. For those 10 seconds you are...

Actress Erika Anderson, South Carolina Residents to lead Charleston Townhall Tonight

#POWEROFTHESISTERVOTE Black Women’s Vote Key to Presidential Race, other important State and Local Elections in 2016 Watch Live stream of the townhall rally at 6:30 pm...

VIDEO: Debate over Immigration Heats Up

Don’t Get Too Excited When Trump Attacks George W. Bush over Iraq

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist Something weird happened on February 13th at the Republican debate in South Carolina. Donald Trump went after Jeb...

What You Need to Know about Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Wall Street Project

By Don Terry Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition For Chicago-based investor and philanthropist John Rogers, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s annual...

Hundreds Of Black Men Show Their Support For Students In Seattle

By Chris B. Bennett Special to the NNPA News Wire from The Seattle Medium In one of the most dynamic displays of civic engagement seen in...

CBC PAC Endorses Hillary Clinton

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer While Sen. Bernie Sanders was in New York City dining with the Rev. Al Sharpton and courting...

As State Senate Bill 2162 is Filed, Opposition to It Organizes

By Ivory Phillips Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Jackson Advocate The long-awaited bill that would authorize a new board to control Jackson’s Medgar...