By Wade Henderson (President and CEO, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights) For the first time in our nation’s history, the majority of students...
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO of the NNPA) Silicon Valley has ushered in social media, driverless cars, and missions to Mars, contributing...
By Dr. John Warren (San Diego Voice and Viewpoint/NNPA Member) It appears that the law enforcement officers of America have declared open season on African Americans,...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Between the unemployment rate report that was released in early September, and the Census report on income and poverty that...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) With less than seven weeks to go before one of the most historic elections in our nation’s history, and when...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) On Saturday, September 10, I had the pleasure of being one of the featured speakers for the inaugural Liberty Farm...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) The fight for fair lending got a big boost on August 31 when a federal court rejected a payday loan...
By Armstrong Williams (NNPA Newswire Columnist) As if to compound the insult to American power represented by the world’s vociferous rejection of the Bush doctrine, the...
By Laura W. Murphy (President of Laura Murphy & Associates) When I was asked by Airbnb to lead their effort to fight discrimination and bias, I...
By Alma Gill (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Dear Alma, My parents divorced when I was nine. It was cool, because I spent a lot of time with...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) While millions of children (and teachers) welcome the call to go back to school in August and early September, all...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) I am really getting fed up with the constant drumbeat of criticism of Donald Trump’s campaign, especially the criticism coming...
By Benjamin Chavis (President and CEO of the NNPA) The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) proudly asserts that, “We are the authentic voice of Black America.”...
[TNTRIBUNE.COM/NNPA MEMBER] I don’t like name calling and disparaging anyone’s character not, and it’s not because I am a man of God. I say this because...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) The most recent data on minority-owned firms in the United States was collected in 2012 (and released at the end...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) On Saturday, August 20, I was at my mother’s house in Virginia when I received a text message, late...
By Alma Gill (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Dear Alma, I’ve been friends with a woman for over 10 years. We went to high school together. I left...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO of the NNPA) The freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement of Black people in America and throughout the...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Imagine the Chicago Bulls of the NBA during the early Michael Jordan years. He was their top draft pick...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. (NNPA Newswire Columnist) There is something that I have found particularly odd in this election season and there have been many things...
[FINALCALL.COM/NNPA MEMBER] The passing of George E. Curry, a great defender and supporter of the Black Press and an important editor and journalist, was sudden and...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Our American exceptionalism allows us to shimmer, too fully in our greatness. We are the biggest and the baddest. We...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Any member of an organization that truly cares about the group will not hesitate to hold the leadership accountable...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO of the NNPA) The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) salutes the first class of the Discover the Unexpected...
