[LAS VEGAS SUN] NAACP President Ben Jealous says he plans to turn over petitions with more than 1.7 million signatures calling on the Department of Justice...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Watching television Saturday night, I sat in stunned silence as the jury returned its not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, is as important as the killing of White mothers’ sons,...
By Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. NNPA Guest Columnist As I spent Sunday listening to everyone pontificate their theories about how White racism led to George Zimmerman’s...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Trayvon Martin might not be dead except for the fact that George Zimmerman carried a gun and acted as a wanna-be...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist No wonder Kentucky’s Republican Senator Rand Paul couldn’t get his American and African-American history right when he spoke to students...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist As we draw nearer to one of the most relevant events in history, an event that has been revered and immortalized...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “As of 2004, more black men were denied the right to vote because of a criminal record than in 1870,...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The contrast between the attitudes of China’s President Xi Jinping and our President Barack Obama is absolutely shocking. President Xi...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Alright, team, enough is enough. During the entire first term of the Obama administration, Black America—for the most part—gave the...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist In the 2008 presidential election, Blacks were the largest voting bloc for Obama (as a percentage)—96 percent. In 2012, Obama received...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist What is the plan for our nation’s cities? Are they simply to simmer with a growing divide between the...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist For most people, a car paid in full is a sign of financial freedom. When monthly notes are done, household budgets...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Does anyone remember what life was like before cell phones? Almost makes you wonder how in the world we were able...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Due to Supreme Court rulings that were occurring in the United States, President Barack Obama’s advocacy for gay rights took place...
[THE BERKELEY BLOG] America has long been the most religious of the affluent, western nations, having the most professing and practicing population. (A couple of the...
[THE CATHOLIC WORLD REPORT] Why does it seem that orderly, prosperous, and well-run societies are usually less religious, but the less religious a society becomes the...
[RELIGION NEWS SERVICE] Leading secularists are calling on nonreligious parents to fight a government effort that would allow the Church of England to run thousands of...
[TIME] North Carolina legislators made national headlines last week with a bit of high-profile religious extremism. They introduced a resolution declaring that the state has the right...
By James Washington Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times I know I’ve started one or two columns off like this, but with all the...
[ABC NEWS] My assignment: Review apps that promised to place free calls on cell phones. Simple enough. But it was one that would take days to...
[COMPUTERWORLD] Computerworld – A working Apple-1 computer fetched $387,750 on Tuesday at auction, well off the record price of $671,400 paid in May for another of the...
[TECHSPOT] The convenience of modern smartphones and the emergence of video calling services have all but made traditional phone lines an outdated technology. Although it has failed to...
[PCMAG.COM] T-Mobile today announced a new upgrade plan called “Jump” where subscribers on installment plans will be able to, after six months, trade in their phones...
[MASHABLE] Instagram added the ability to embed photos and videos on Wednesday. Users can find the embed button — available only on desktop — on the right side of...
