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...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In the first report of its kind, the Center for Responsible Lending has examined consumer lending markets across-the-board and found that...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” This famous quote from Frederick Douglass brings to...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist My family went to see “Lincoln,” the much advertised and critically acclaimed new film by Steven Spielberg. The plot...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I was recently in South Africa for a conference. While there, I had two interesting experiences that raised the complications...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist “Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more...
By Nick Chiles Special to the NNPA from the Atlanta Black Star Perhaps there is something special about a presidential tear. Maybe this time, a line...
by Benjamin Todd Jealous Special to the NNPA from the North Dallas Gazette There is a missing component to the national discussion concerning how to...
by Damon Carr Special to the NNPA from the New Pittsburgh Courier When I first began writing a financial column, I would end almost every column...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist It should be embarrassing enough that President Obama and House Republicans postponed making tough fiscal decisions by kicking the...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I am constantly amazed by the lack of any meaningful, insightful post-election analysis on the various media outlets (radio, TV,...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist More than 37 million American households were either unbanked or under-banked in 2011, according to a new report by the...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Newark, New Jersey Mayor, Corey Booker, following the example of Phoenix, Arizona Mayor, Greg Stanton, is accepting a challenge to...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist By now, it’s old news that Kasandra Perkins was murdered by Kansas City Chiefs football player Jovan Belcher, who was...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Most people think of corruption belonging exclusively to the Third World. Actually, corruption is everywhere. Sometimes it is rampant...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Angela M. Gilliam NNPA We, as African Americans, simply could not remain silent when word broke of the Israeli bombings of...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist This year, New York is facing the worst homeless crisis since the Great Depression. The city homeless population included...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Shine bright like a diamond Shine bright like a diamond Shining bright like a diamond We’re beautiful like diamonds in...
Dear Gwendolyn: I have gone with my boyfriend for 22 years. For the past 10 years, he has introduced me to a lifestyle of which I...
