By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – A trip to South Africa provides painful reminders of the protracted struggle to establish democracy,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Although the dictionary calls it archaic, the “management of a household” is one of the definitions listed for the word “economy.” Another...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Suppose one of the key committees in Congress scheduled a hearing on one of the country’s most debilitating economic...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The small-dollar loans that generate long-lasting debt for consumers and cost them billions of dollars each year are drawing the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist African American students achieve at a different level than White students. Test scores are lower, as are high school and college...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Ask anyone you know and you’ll find most Americans don’t see the validity of the issue of reparations for Blacks...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Depending on the day, what you’re reading or who you’re listening to, the economy is either still in the tank,...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist It baffles my mind. There are threats and actual terror hits happening all over the world and we are...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I was on “Washington Watch with Roland Martin” last week. This is a weekly TV show that deals with Black...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “No more hurting people. Peace.” – Eight-year-old Martin Richard, a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing Acts of terror like...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist When President Obama was first elected, in 2008, much of the world waited to see what sort of changes...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I don’t know where CNN’s John King got the information that a suspect in the Boston bombing was “a dark-skinned...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The United States Senate’s failure to pass common sense gun safety measures – the Manchin-Toomey Amendment to expand background...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Every time the National Rifle Association (NRA) or its political allies block any form of gun control, people throw...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist At first I wondered why I felt so powerful a sense of déjà vu last week when the Senate...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “Sometimes I close my eyes and all I can remember is that awful day…But other times, I feel Ben’s presence...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Do you have anything to say about what’s going on in town, or across America? What are your personal priorities...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Once again the Black community has been shown how irrelevant they have become in the U.S. Most of the blame...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist A recent report by Jason Jenkins, Investment U Research, shows that private prisons are earning even more money via warehousing...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Earlier this year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) asked for public comments on private student loan debt affordability. By...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Let me first say that I believe a woman should have the right to an abortion. It is the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist There has been much discussion about the big picture items in President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal 2014. If...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist You could say “42,” the film about the life of Brooklyn Dodgers great Jackie Robinson, is a gripping baseball...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The right wing seems determined to associate President Obama with any government program that helps people on the bottom. Thus, the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Sequestration is like the sand in an hour glass. When the sand starts falling, it does not seem to...
