By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Covering the three-day celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act at the University of Texas last...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist One of the best kept secrets over the past 50 years is that, proportionately, Republicans in Congress supported passage of the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist When I first heard the news, my response was one of both outrage and a calm lack of surprise....
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Affluent Americans would do quite well. But for tens of millions of others, the Ryan plan is a path...
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By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “. . . We see repeated efforts in Congress in recent years to take resources away from poor and...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Major League Baseball’s home run king, Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron has just knocked another one out of the park. ...
By Everett Glenn NNPA Guest Columnist The recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision granting Northwestern University football players the right to unionize, if upheld,...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As 21st Century employers continue to seek a highly-trained workforce, the marketable value of a college education has never been higher....
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Racial discrimination does exist in this world but certainly not at the level it did prior to the Civil Rights...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist An Expensive Invitation Dear Alma, Three years after my divorce I met a really nice man. I am 34 years...
Rev. Manson B. Johnson II Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times 7 STRENGTHS OF CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS Bible Fact: God uses a combination of spiritual...
by Lyndia Grant Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer We began a series recently to share research by Napoleon Hill, a young man commissioned...
Special to the NNPA from The Dallas Examiner The battle of the bulge is a lifelong challenge for many women. This is largely because our bodies...
Special to the NNPA from The Dallas Examiner Springtime brings warmer weather, outdoor family fun, BBQs, ballgames, and for many Americans, the start of allergy season....
By Sandra Jordan Special to the NNPA from the St. Louis American Did you know that lifestyle changes that are recommended for your heart are the...
by Starla Muhammad and Eric Ture Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call CHICAGO – The March 31 deadline for uninsured Americans to enroll...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist You would think that news of a high school student from a family of African immigrants getting accepted into...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Whenever there is a steady series of public questions being raised about the “power” of Black Americans, you...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I love voting. Every time I go into the booth, I see little girl me, pigtails and all, plaid skirt, white...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Last week the U.S. Supreme Court added another layer of bricks to the wall conservatives are trying to build to...
By Jesse L Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The Bible’s injunction that we shall be judged by how we have treated the “least of these” (Mathew 25:40)...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Today, almost one year after I first wrote about Ka’nard Allen, his story—and the stories of several other children whose...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week I attended a very nice reception hosted by two of my friends, Rosa Whitaker and Bernadette Paolo. Rosa...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In mid-March, the monitor for the National Mortgage Settlement announced that participating banks had completed terms of the agreement affecting...