[THE TAMPA TRIBUNE] There’s been a big shift in how many school districts take money from soda companies and ban junk food from vending machines, health...
[REUTERS] More than one in 10 children had a stutter by age four in a new Australian study, but those kids scored just as high or...
Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Defender There is a huge difference between a fruit smoothie you blend up at home and the concoctions you...
Today is the day that the working parents should know that you are appreciated. Working parents in particular struggle to meet the hardest demands of every...
By Sandra Jordan Special to the NNPA from The St. Louis American Keon Gilbert, assistant professor in the College for Public Health and Social Justice at...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Now that we’ve had two events at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington,...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist On August 28, on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “Dream” oration,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington is an important event not only because it recalls a landmark era...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The 1963 March on Washington was a pivotal moment for African Americans, a day when people joined to fight for jobs,...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Fifty years to the day that Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and its Chairman, Reince Priebus hosted a great 50th anniversary commemoration of the March...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In the midst of varying proposals for housing reform, civil rights leaders are publicly calling for lawmakers to keep mortgage lending...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Being poor doesn’t always mean being without resources. Anacostia is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., yet the total...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist How can there be honest negotiations when one side – which has the lion’s share of the weapons, including a...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago on this August 28, hundreds of thousands of citizens gathered in our nation’s capital to fight...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Isn’t it fascinating how a person can have a single idea or dream planted, take root and change the world as...
By Ryan Cooper Special to the NNPA from the Los Angeles Sentinel About three years ago, in late March 2010, Shirley Sherrod, who was then the...
[LOS ANGELES TIMES] Somehow, it seems appropriate that a freshman Republican congressman who raises reindeer to pull Santa’s sleigh in holiday parades is suggesting that impeaching...
[THE WASHINGTON INFORMER] Hundreds of District residents attended an early morning rally leading up to the commemorative March on Washington to voice their outrage over their...
[REUTERS] The United Nations said on Monday it plans to contact the United States over a report that the U.S. National Security Agency bugged its New...
Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Daily World On Sunday, Congressman Hank Johnson presented DeKalb County resident Antoinette Tuff with a Congressional proclamation and poem...
[UPI] U.S. black Americans say more civil rights laws are needed to reduce discrimination against blacks in the wake of George Zimmerman‘s acquittal, a poll found. In...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The 50th Anniversary for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom celebrated a more diverse coalition...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When the Florida jury found George Zimmerman, a White neighborhood watchman, not guilty of second-degree murder in...
