By William Reed NNPA Columnist “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.” If eight years have passed...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Just when you think leaders of the National Rifle Association can’t stoop any lower, they keep managing to plunge even...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist I’ve always disliked the way Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is often celebrated. The reasons why became even clearer to me...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.” – Slain Civil Rights leader, Medgar Evers When President...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Four years ago, President Obama made history by becoming the first Black president in the history of the U.S. I...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In his last Sunday sermon at Washington National Cathedral, Dr. King retold the parable of the rich man Dives...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Who is surprised that Lance Armstrong was doping? Who thinks he was the only one? Who is surprised that he...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Yes, I said, “Reclaiming,” which obviously means doing it again. There was a time in this nation when Black people...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Drone warfare is truly the warfare of the videogame age. The ‘pilot’ sits behind a panel, miles away from...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Our brand new year is in full swing – full of promise and new beginnings. Even as we move forward...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist No business can guarantee success. In fact, the vast majority of business ventures fail by the second year. Yet,...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A century ago, the prevalence of public transportation enabled many Americans to take a bus or trolley car to work,...
By Linda Tarrant-Reid Special to the NNPA from The Westchester County Press I went to see Quentin Tarantino’s latest film Django Unchained with some trepidation. I...
By Gershom Williams NNPA Guest Columnist Perhaps because Antenor Firmin wrote in French and not English, or perhaps because he was Haitian and not French,...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I really had not planned on writing anything about the shooting in Newtown, Conn. because I didn’t have anything fresh or...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the wake of the killing of 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn. last month and just before Vice President...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The heartrending massacre of 20, 6- and 7-year-old children and six educators in Newtown, Conn. has galvanized public attention...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The recent joint announcement by two key federal regulators believed a negotiated agreement with 10 mortgage servicing firms would help...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The latest negative programming coming from the dominant media is a ridiculous show about a Black guy who has 11...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist One hundred and fifty years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It was a flawed document that freed enslaved...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Governments – federal through local – are run by revenue. The source for their revenue is taxation. Their management...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist African-American sports pundit, Rob Parker created a clamor and got himself suspended for saying on live television: “My question is...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “We urge that a comprehensive jobs program be developed and executed by way of a partnership that includes government, the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist When then-National Newspaper Publishers Association Chairman Danny Bakewell, Sr. asked me to emcee the Black Press Week luncheon at...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Congressman John Boehner was re-elected speaker of the House of Representatives with a narrow vote. Needing 218 votes, he barely...
