By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Organizers of the two recent marches on Washington – one called by Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King, III...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist On Saturday August 24 and Wednesday, August 28, tens of thousands of Americans gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to...
By Joe Madison NNPA Guest Columnist There was a lot of talk around the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington last week that Dr. Martin...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “You see a lot of teachers judge and stigmatize their students based on where they come from. A lot of...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “Almost 50 years ago, I gave a little blood on that bridge in Selma, Alabama for the right to vote. I...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week, the Republican National Committee, under the leadership of its chairman, Reince Priebus, did something that has never been...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus inherited a simple mission: stop inflaming racism and expand the voter base beyond...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist With their fingers on the triggers, the Secretary of Defense and others in our government are poised to strike Syria...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In the aftermath of more than 2.5 million foreclosures, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is now offering a homeownership program that...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist On August 27, 1963, the day before the historic March on Washington, one of the greatest thinkers of the...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Do you know the true value of your business? I doubt it as 80 percent of all business owners...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Now that we’ve had two events at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington,...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist On August 28, on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “Dream” oration,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington is an important event not only because it recalls a landmark era...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The 1963 March on Washington was a pivotal moment for African Americans, a day when people joined to fight for jobs,...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Fifty years to the day that Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and its Chairman, Reince Priebus hosted a great 50th anniversary commemoration of the March...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In the midst of varying proposals for housing reform, civil rights leaders are publicly calling for lawmakers to keep mortgage lending...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Being poor doesn’t always mean being without resources. Anacostia is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., yet the total...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist How can there be honest negotiations when one side – which has the lion’s share of the weapons, including a...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago on this August 28, hundreds of thousands of citizens gathered in our nation’s capital to fight...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Isn’t it fascinating how a person can have a single idea or dream planted, take root and change the world as...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Watching television Saturday night, I sat in stunned silence as the jury returned its not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, is as important as the killing of White mothers’ sons,...
