By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The push for the Black vote is on. Black folks are back in style. Black is beautiful – again. Since...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Every year for the past decade, under the agency’s “stop-and-frisk” program, New York City police officers have stopped 500,000...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist How many African Americans know that the president of the United States (POTUS) recently met with their leaders? How many among...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In today’s challenging financial times, the cost of living finds many consumers with an ongoing financial challenge to hold on...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist All major cities have street gangs. Some can be violent and many can be criminal organizations. Los Angeles, without...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, released his long awaited report last week called the Growth and Opportunity...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In January 2004, as the president of TransAfrica Forum, I had the honor of leading the first African American...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “My friends are dead. I saw the bad man. He was next to me when we ran out.” “I played...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.” Sheryl Sandberg In a...
Halle Berry gets Meaty Role in ‘The Call’ (***) By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic “911. What’s your emergency?” Call center operators are the unsung...
[TMZ] Rapper Too Short has just been arrested for DUI … after allegedly attempting to run from police, TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, Short —...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The selection of Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the next leader of the Catholic Church was, in some ways,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist There are some painful things from my childhood in segregated Tuscaloosa, Ala., that I will never forget. At the...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As Black America continues to struggle with high unemployment rates, a new research report by Demos, a public policy organization...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist As a result of Ohio’s Republican Senator Rob Portman’s declaration last week that he now supports homosexual marriage, I am...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The other day I found myself engaged in a casual discussion with someone next to me on an airplane. ...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist As I write, Chaka Khan’s empowering “I’m Every Woman” loops in my head – like a soundtrack. (By the way,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist On March 4 Oberlin College in Ohio, which has always had an outsized role in the history of Black...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “It will not be sufficient for Morehouse College, for any college, for that matter, to produce clever graduates, men...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist This is the beginning of a series of articles about street gangs in our nation. Gone are the days...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “We’re here to let the community, and particularly teenagers, know that they have a right to walk in peace...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist The Presidential Medal of Freedom is bestowed by the president of the United States and is – along with the...
Composer and producer Ray Chew, also an accomplished keyboardist, is in his third season as musical director of “American Idol.” — SUBMITTED PHOTO Having put his...
With the proliferation of Black TV networks — partly as a result of Com-cast/NBC Universal’s backing a number of minority start ups following diversity pressure from...
Lenny Kravitz is out – and Jesse L. Martin is in to portray iconic soul singer Marvin Gaye in the Julien Temple produced, “Sexual Healing.” According...
