By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist There is a different feel in the air, and it should not be surprising. As historic as was the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist As New Year’s Eve countdowns wound down, many people turned to the familiar ritual of taking stock of where...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “I miss you baby girl. Sweet caramel princess. African American, Puerto Rican Canadian with a wee bit of Irish…We...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist As I have reflected on the year just ended, I noticed everyone doing their usual year-end lists of the biggest...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In consideration of the latest shenanigans from Congress as it pertains to the economic conditions facing most Americans these days, unemployment...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist It started in the jungles of the Amazon and is now infesting the streets of the favelas (ghettos) of Sao...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Starting during the 1930s, the Mitchells of Washington were close friends with Edward Kennedy Ellington’s family. So, in 2009 when the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Even though feuding Democrats and Republicans reached a last-minute deal on New Year’s Day to avoid the fiscal cliff,...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist How will African Americans improve our situation in 2013? Right now, we have higher unemployment than any other population in...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I could not believe that I was actually seeing what I was seeing. I had heard about Oliver Stone’s...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama has won his re-election. That history is clear and the big question now is who in...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist If Sen. Timothy Eugene Scott is the GOP standard bearer in the 2016 presidential elections, will any Black Americans vote...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnists When the National Rifle Association finally revealed last week what it was willing to do to help curb gun violence...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Over the past few days we’ve all learned a bit more about 20 beautiful 6- and 7-year-olds who each...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist According to findings from the Center for Responsible Lending’s newest report, The State of Lending in America and Its Impact on...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The polite side of me congratulates Tim Scott on being named Senator for the state of South Carolina. Alright,...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Channel surfing over the weekend, I stopped on a favorite old romantic comedy that was centered on a relationship that...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist That’s right, Jimmy Graham! Most of the public is only recently becoming aware of the story of Jimmy Graham. I...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Again this year, African Americans placed higher priorities on participation in politics than the pursuit of capitalistic and business development...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The old British Empire was the founder and leader of the drug trade. This government saw the drug trade,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Over the span of one week, two different sides of President Obama emerged in different yet unforgettable terms. This first...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The horrendous news from Newtown, Conn. has pierced our hearts. A black-clad man in his 20s armed with two semi-automatic...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I was in a cab just the other day when the driver chided me for not knowing football. He was a...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist What is it about Democratic presidents and Black women that result in the women always being thrown under the bus? Black...
By Benjamin Todd Jealous NNPA Guest Columnist Every generation believes their children deserve to be better off than they were. This belief inspired the first slave...
