COMMENTARY: President Trump Wages War on Obama’s Legacy in First 100 Days

By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) There was the proposed massive budget cut to the Department of Housing and Urban Development; the incessant rhetoric about...

Consent Decrees Shouldn’t End with Baltimore

By Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) Two years ago on April 12, 2015, Freddie Gray’s life was lost while in custody of the Baltimore City Police...

Climate Change Is Creating Climate Refugees

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Have you ever heard of the Marshall Islands? They are 1156 islands that constitute a republic in the South...

Flat Funding for HBCUs Is a Win

By Johnny C. Taylor Jr. (NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist) My job is to promote the interests of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities. So naturally I...

The “100 Day” Presidential Milestone Is Meaningless

By Armstrong Williams (NNPA Newswire Columnist) A few days ago the Trump Administration passed the 100 day milestone, and I can’t help but think, “So what?”...

Famine Is Threatening Three African Nations. What Will Trump Do?

By Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) As you read this, our world stands at a crossroads. As you read this, 20 million people stand at risk of...

Un-Making a Contented Slave

By Angelo C. Louw (NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist) “I have observed this in my experience of slavery, — that whenever my condition was improved, instead of...

To End AIDS in the United States, Stay True to the National HIV/AIDS Strategy

From Factor to Failure: What Black Leaders Can Learn from the O’Reilly Debacle

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Former Fox News Channel anchor Bill O’Reilly, the man whose lofty ratings were responsible for the growth of the network,...

Black Fraternities and Sororities Have the Economic Clout to Power the Next Black Renaissance

By James Clingman (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Remember the scene from “New Jack City” when Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) told Scotty (Ice-T), “This ain’t personal; this is...

Environmental Justice Must Be a National Priority

By Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. (N.J.-10) Too often missing in discussions on the challenges facing African Americans is any focus on environmental justice, the idea...

Four Reasons Why We Have to Get the Every Student Succeeds Act Right

By Wade Henderson (President and CEO/The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights) In late March, President Trump signed a resolution to invalidate a regulation designed...

The Solar Industry Wants Me to Be Quiet. I Wonder Why.

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist As a journalist and political commentator, who covers issues important to the African American community and other marginalized communities, I...

Remember the Chibok Girls

By Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.) Three years ago, Boko Haram terrorists burst into dormitory rooms at the Government Secondary School in the northern Nigerian town...

CBC Report Calls for Economic Justice

By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) This year has brought a number of significant developments. A new Congress, the 115th in our nation’s history and similarly...

Ask Alma: My Husband Told Me not to Buy a New Car, and I Bought One Anyway

By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, One of your recent columns, reminded me of my situation, so, I decided to contact you. I...

We Have More in Common with Russia than You Think

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Last month I wrote a column titled, “Russia Is Winning the War for American Minds.” In that piece, I discussed...

Sponsors of Hate Today Must Be Held Accountable

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO, NNPA) Over the next several days, across the United States, people will pause in solemn remembrance of the...

Trump’s Budget Blueprint Cuts Close to Home

By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) From youth yearning for the time to have their own place, to older Americans hoping to age in place, the...

CBC Opposes Nomination of Judge Gorsuch and the Senate Should Too

By U.S. Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-La.) (Chairman, Congressional Black Caucus) On January 31, President Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court....

COMMENTARY: Mr. President, What If It Was Your Mama?

By Austin R. Cooper (NNPA Newswire Columnist) During the summer before the election, then-presidential nominee Donald Trump, added this message to his speeches: “You’re living in...

The Cost of a Vote

By Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell (D-Ala.) Fifty-one years ago, on March 24, 1966, the United States Supreme Court struck down the last poll taxes in this...

Ask Alma: My Boyfriend’s Sister Is Throwing Major Shade

By Alma Gill (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Dear Alma, I’m in my 50’s, twice divorced, with no children. I have a demanding job that keeps me busy...

President Trump’s Outreach Efforts Are Repulsive to Blacks

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) I think Donald Trump is the embodiment of Isaac Newton’s third law of motion. Newton’s law states that, “For every...

Trump’s Budget Cuts Hurt the Same People that Voted for Him

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) If you happened to have voted for the man who now occupies the White House, you may be feeling bamboozled,...