By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “In Fiscal Year 2013, the City procured $16.5 billion worth of goods and services and only $439 million went to...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist This column is not about the recent story making headlines in New York City on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week’s defeat of House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor sent shock waves throughout D.C. like I have never seen before. ...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist This past weekend I went to a casting call for a video series. No, I was not personally auditioning. I...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist We first visited Cuba in 2000. There was so much to see that we visited twice that year (August and...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Asking Someone Out Dear Alma, I am a divorced man in my early fifties. I have been debating asking out a...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist As we approach Fathers’ Day across the United States and in some other nations throughout the world, it...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Not every speaker tells a crowd of young leaders that their job is to get into trouble. But that’s...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist I disagree with President Obama’s decision to trade five Taliban leaders being held at Guantanamo Bay for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl,...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist The biggest complaints I get from Black journalists when it comes to Republican officeholders and Party leaders is that they...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist One of the classic commercials of the 1970s, when technological advances in food processing made it possible to enhance...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “We hear your calling/ And we begin by giving you 100 years/ Of loving defense/ We shall encourage the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist As young people graduate from high school, or finish the school year as sophomores and juniors, they begin to search...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist There has arisen a peculiar phenomenon over the past seven years. Conservative legislatures in states such as Florida and Wisconsin...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A Texas mayor could soon move from City Hall to the nation’s capital. On May 23, San Antonio native and...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist On March 17, Obama administration took aim at career colleges and schools across the country with a new raft...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Alcoholic Parents Dear Alma, My Dad and my Stepmom have been together for over 20 years. They both have and...
JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel gave the final go-ahead Thursday to build nearly 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements, saying the construction was a...
DENNIS WASZAK Jr., Associated Press SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — The Houston Astros had the No. 1 pick again, and this time, they took a pitcher polished...
ANN TATKO-PETERSON, Contra Costa Times (Contra Costa Times) — Actor Michael Jace apparently called his father-in-law after shooting his wife, April Jace on May 19, a...
JAKE PERLMAN, Entertainment Weekly (Entertainment Weekly)— Denzel Washington, about to end a run on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun, is in talks to star in...
MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — In her new book, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she pushed President Barack Obama to lift...
HOUSTON, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man arrested for cursing in front of police has filed a lawsuit saying his right to free speech was...
PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama, whose photograph famously appeared in Life magazine showing her cradling the head of...
STEVE SZKOTAK, Associated Press JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell got a firsthand look Thursday at the effect of climate change on ever-receding Jamestown...
