Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “Our nation is moving towards two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal.” – 1967 Kerner Commission In 1963, more...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Two weeks ago, President Obama met with three African presidents—Koroma (Sierra Leone), Sall (Senegal), Banda (Malawi), and Prime Minister of...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Are you a Zero-TV household? No, I don’t mean restricting the kids’ TV viewing to the weekends or until after...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist In American politics, many object to power flowing through blood rather than through the ballot. A “dynasty” is a sequence of...
[People] This is no song and dance – like he did with Jimmy Fallon earlier this week. Jay Leno, 62, is retiring from his 22-year job hosting NBC’s Tonight...
[Guardian] Veteran movie critic Roger Ebert has announced that he is scaling back his workload to deal with a recurrence of cancer. Ebert, 70, wrote on his Chicago Sun-Times blog that...
[Reuters] – Jury selection began on Tuesday in a Los Angeles civil trial that will revisit the checkered life and sudden death of superstar Michael Jackson...
Reality TV personality Omarosa Manigault has been fired from the business-themed competition show “All-Star Celebrity Apprentice” in New York. Divided into two teams, the competitors were...
Two lawsuits are in the works over music by the late R&B singer Aaliyah. According to TMZ, publishing company Reservoir Media Management is suing independent record...
Former NFL star Kordell Stewart has filed for divorce against Real Housewives of Atlanta co-star Porsha Stewart. TMZ.com reports Kordell filed for divorce March 22 in Fulton County Superior Court in Georgia,...
There’s a fistful of male guest-stars on Rihanna‘s Unapologetic LP — from Future oozing Auto-Tuned game on “Loveeeeeee Song” to Eminem spitting Novocaine-fueled non sequiturs on “Numb” —...
It took a minute to grow on me, but Fantasia’s new song “Lose to Win” is actually one of my favorite songs out right...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist A decade after carefully ruling in two University of Michigan cases – striking down the undergraduate admissions procedures and...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist One of the worst ironies of the nagging economic recession is that consumers with the fewest financial resources have lost...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Guest Columnist On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stepped to the podium of the Riverside Church in New...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist August 2013 represents the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington. Publicly associated with Dr. King’s famous “I have...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Thomas Boston, noted economist and author of Affirmative Action and Black Entrepreneurship, in which he called for a strategy that would...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Anna Brown, a St. Louis-based homeless woman, needed treatment for a sprained ankle. She went to three emergency rooms seeking...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Why is the National Rifle Association so afraid of the truth? There are many misconceptions about guns and gun...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Several of my readers of have questioned why I am writing positive articles about my Republican Party. The simple answer...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist The top Black Republicans in the country recently joined Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as he honored “Black Republican...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist As I have been looking at the phenomenon of street gangs in urban areas of our nation, there...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In five months, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. In 1963, the March was jointly called...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I never considered the late Rodney King anything of a philosopher, but as one observes Washington shenanigans, especially around fiscal...
