Cleveland’s RNC Was the Whitest Convention I’ve Ever Attended

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) As I boarded my return flight to D.C. from last week’s Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio, I began to...

We Must Have Intellectual Honesty about Race and Criminal Justice Reform

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (NNPA President and CEO) There is an old adage that posits “The more things appear to change, the more they stay...

Ask Alma: My Awkward Niece Wants to be the Next Gabby Douglas

By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, My niece is all in love with Gabby Douglas and thinks she can one day tryout for...

Film Review: Ice Age: Collision Course

By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) It’s official. This is the year of animation. So many films from the genre are sprouting up like...

This is Why ESPN Is the Republican Party of Sports Television

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I am quite fond of saying about Republicans when it comes to Blacks, “Even when they try to do...

Deconstructing Reconstruction in the Aftermath of Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights and Dallas

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) After Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Falcon Heights, Minnesota there was Dallas, Texas. After rogue cops unceremoniously killed two Black...

Recent Police Shootings Show Our Nation’s Hypocrisy

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Just a day after millions of Americans celebrated the “Fourth of You Lie,” our nation got more evidence of...

Hip-Hop Culture Is the Monster that the Black Community Created

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I am quite confident that what I am about to write will prove to be quite controversial, but I...

Blackonomics: The Difference Between Jesse Williams’ BET Speech and What Comes Next

Ask Alma: My Messy Co-Worker Has No Home Training

By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, I work in a small accounting office of 16 people. We sit in cubicles very close to...

Trump, Republican Party Confuse Outreach Efforts with Pandering

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) As long as the Republican Party continues to be dominated by the same ol’, same ol’ White male staffers,...

Congressman John Lewis Is One of a Kind

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I have always had enormous admiration for Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) and that admiration increased exponentially when I watched...

Saving Community Newspapers in the Age of Facebook

By Denise Rolark-Barnes (Chairperson of the NNPA) and Benjamin F. Chavis (President and CEO of the NNPA) Hundreds of newspapers have disappeared in the last 15...

The Murders in Orlando Had Nothing to Do with Homosexuality

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Everyone knows my position on the radical homosexual agenda being forced upon our country. I totally disagree with it....

Senator John McCain Foolishly Blames President Obama for the Massacre in Orlando

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) The cretin who took an assault weapon into Pulse, an Orlando nightclub, on “salsa night” is beneath contempt. Was...

Discover The Unexpected: NNPA Journalism Scholars Are Breaking News

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President of the NNPA) Today, we are exposed to 10-minute news segments six times per hour in a 24-hour news cycle...

Discover the Unexpected: Continuing the Legacy of Freedom’s Journal in 2016

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President of the NNPA) History is more than the memory and documentation of the past. We all learn from the trials,...

Blackonomics: Muhammad Ali Will Inspire Me Until the Day I Die

Five Things that The Republican Party Gets Totally Wrong about Race

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) While there is no denying that Donald Trump has had a terrible past couple of weeks with his dogged...

Go Sweetly, Muhammad Ali

By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson With the passing of the larger than life sports personality, Muhammad Ali, the world has lost more than a great boxing...

Dear White People: Muhammad Ali Did Not Transcend Race

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We Need Literacy Warriors like Kizzy in the Black Community Today

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dictionary defines warriors as “a person who fights in battle and is known for having courage and skill.” In...

Why We Must Never Forget Our Roots

By Marian Wright Edelman (President of the Children’s Defense Fund) “So Dad has joined the other [ancestors] up there. I feel that they do watch and...

This Is Why Snoop Lion Should Write, Direct and Produce Black Movies

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Last week rapper Snoop Dogg put up an epic video rant on his Instagram. In the verbiage that only...

Young Black Scholars “Discover the Unexpected” on the Journey to Empowerment

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President of the National Newspaper Publishers Association) The legendary scholar, writer and visionary James Baldwin once personally confided with me that...