[REUTERS] The head of Smithfield Foods on Wednesday faced tough questioning from U.S. lawmakers concerned the proposed sale of Virginia ham maker to China’s largest pork...
[LOS ANGELES TIMES] Tribune Co.‘s plan to spin off its newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, into a stand-alone publishing company follows in the...
By Cary Yates Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times According to the College Board, the average cost of college tuition and fees in 2012...
By R. Preston Clark Special to the NNPA from the San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Victor J. Glover sat in one of his engineering classes at Cal...
[THE WASHINGTON POST] D.C. lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to a bill requiring some large retailers to pay their employees a 50 percent premium over the city’s...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist If you’re looking for the justice on the Supreme Court who mirrors Thurgood Marshall’s tenure on the bench, it is...
By Sherrilyn A. Ifill NNPA Guest Columnist The Voting Rights Act has been described as the “crown jewel” of civil rights legislation. Its passage was secured...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama should lead a forceful drive to revive the Voting Rights Act, which was effectively disemboweled by...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist For decades now, July 4th has always compelled in me to reconsider, and more deeply appreciate, Frederick Douglass’ famous oration of...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist My heart was shattered while I was working at 60 Minutes when my only sister was shot and killed by her husband....
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I was 20 years old when Roe v. Wade was decided. A year before the decision, a young woman who lived in my dormitory...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As more Baby Boomers continue to retire, a new research report has found that the nation is facing a trillion dollar...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist It is now five years since the great financial crisis of 2008, which saw housing markets plummet, the stock market...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The other night I was watching television and a commercial came on. It was from Walmart and it was attempting...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Pebbles Ward who is a cast member on hit reality series “South Beach Tow” reached out to the Hip Hop Union...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist President Obama has concluded his three-country tour of Africa. He visited Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania. Most presidential trips overseas have...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist The National Republican Committee surely needs to convince Black Americans of the benefits of joining their party. Is the Republican Party’s...
[THE NEW YORK TIMES] “Civilized society is perpetually threatened with disintegration,” wrote Sigmund Freud in “Civilization and Its Discontents.” So it is with the sectarian violence...
by Alexis Taylor Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Proponents of same-sex marriage celebrated another victory with the Supreme Court’s June 26 ruling that...
by Cora Jackson-Fossett Special to the NNPA from the Los Angeles Sentinel ‘Healing a Wounded Leader’ is the latest book by the Rev. Dr. Wendell J....
by James Washington Special to the NNPA from The Dallas Weekly The older I get the more convinced I am that I am going to surely...
[THE NEW YORK TIMES] Q. Does Skype work on an iPad for video calls, and, if so, does it have any advantages over Apple’s FaceTime system? A. Skype,...
[USA TODAY] Just days before hundreds of Bay Area Rapid Transit workers went on strike, the online ridesharing network Avego bought a new Web address: bartstrike.com....
[CNET] Twitter will soon show its U.S. users ads based on the Web sites they’ve previously visited. Wednesday, the information network formally announced that it is...
