The GOP and Identity Politics in the Black Community

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) The Republican Party continues to miss the mark when it comes to engaging the Black community. For those Republicans, who...

Prohibitions and Bans: Serious, Unintended Consequences

By Reverend Al Sharpton, National Action Network and Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., National Newspaper Publishers Association Rapidly shifting U.S. demographics are fueling the urgency of...

HBCU Leaders, Advocates Must Engage Democrats and Republicans

By Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. (President and CEO, Thurgood Marshall College Fund) As the president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), I’m spending...

President Trump’s Cruel War on Children

By Marian Wright Edelman (President, Children’s Defense Fund) Our nation’s budget should reflect our nation’s professed values, but President Trump’s 2018 Federal Budget, “A New Foundation...

Why Talking about Mental Health Is So Important

By Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) During the month of May, we recognize Mental Health Month, and raise awareness for the millions of Americans living with...

Brooks’ Firing Shows that the NAACP Doesn’t Have a Clue

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Once again the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has proven why it is the Hillary Clinton...

“I Bike Harlem” Owner Uses Airbnb to Grow Her Business

By Maxine Daniels (Founder of “I Bike Harlem”) For decades, many travelers to New York City have limited their excursions to Manhattan neighborhoods south of Central...

Building a Pipeline of HBCU Students to Washington, D.C.

By Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-N.C.) Summer internships are one important way that students can explore passions they want to pursue as a profession. They are exposed...

Ask Alma: My Friend Wants Me to Hire Her Cousin and I Don’t Want To

By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, I have a friend who knows I am hiring people to fix up my house, and she...

CBC Members Warn against Returning to Failed Financial Practices

By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) A House bill designed to reverse regulation of financial services and end consumer protections is attracting the attention of a...

How the Mainstream Media Is Helping Russia

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Once again, the liberal, mainstream media has lost its collective mind over the mess swirling around President Trump in regard...

The Mission of the Democratic Faith Working Group

By Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) Growing up in a church parsonage, the eldest son of a fundamentalist Christian minister, grounded me securely in faith and...

CFPB Sues Ocwen Financial over Unfair Mortgage Practices

By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Families, who have assembled the necessary financial resources to apply, qualify, and then purchase a home, understandably value that key...

Why I’m Proud of the B-CU Grads that Protested Betsy “DeVoid”

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) I could not be more proud of the students at Bethune-Cookman University (B-CU) than if I had raised them myself....

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...