By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As long as most of us can remember, Black communities have taught and believed that a college education is the key...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “I risked my life defending that right. If we are ever to actualize the true meaning of equality, effective measures such...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist When I saw in the news that Vice President Biden had gone out of his way to assure the...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Who is the first Black person that comes to your mind when you think of wealth? Probably 99 out of 100...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist “It is easily seen, that if every member of the race strove to make himself successful in business, he would contribute...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Despite all the infighting going on within my Republican Party, I am seeing reason for great hope as we go...
By Gary L. Flowers NNPA Columnist At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you take and you...
Gary Bledsoe NNPA Guest Columnist Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson NNPA Guest Columnist The two of us sat in utter shock and disbelief as an...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Even after the White House and Congress stagger to reach a last-minute deal to avert yet another budget crisis,...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist In the midst of the Academy Awards drama on Sunday, February 24, one of the Onion’s writers (we don’t know...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Within a matter of days late last month, four controversies erupted that acutely underscore the crux of Black Americans continuing...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Our minds fasten on that single moment on the bus — Mrs. Parks alone in that seat, clutching her...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist It’s time to man up – I was wrong about Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. First, some background. I wrote a...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist March is the official month to “discuss” women and it could not arrive too soon. What is sad about both...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In today’s struggling economy, many consumers find themselves short on cash. When consumers seek a credit remedy, one particular lender...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Did you know that tens of thousands of new products are introduced to consumer markets around the world every...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Legal Shield was first known as PrePaid Legal and that is where this story begins. This...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist GEO Group “is a terrible company with a well-publicized track record of abuse and neglect and FAU should be ashamed to...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Why do Black Americans allow the war on drugs’ unfair toll on people of color to continue? Instead of putting a stop...
By John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. NNPA Guest Columnist Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, the first African American president of Howard University, had a keen and prophetic understanding...
Victories for Black Americans, and for all others who stand freedom, justice and equality, do not come easy and do not occur without a prolonged, sustained...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist When Barack Obama accepted his party’s presidential nomination in Denver on August 28, 2008 – the 45th anniversary of the...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist What was it that made watching the ceremonies of President Obama’s second inauguration more satisfying than even the thrilling...
