By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I want to address this column quite explicitly to African Americans. If you are not African American, please feel...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Congress must approve a budget by October 1, or our government will shut down. That means that people will not...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist What do you consider to be the most important issue facing Black people in America? Jobs? The criminal justice system?...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In early September, public policy experts, housing advocates, civil rights leaders, academicians and others came together for three days to...
By Willie Jolley NNPA Columnist As someone who has pursued business ventures since he opened his first lemonade stand as a kid, Randal Pinkett’s...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Recently, Rev. Otis Moss, Jr., pastor emeritus at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, and former co-pastor at Atlanta’s...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Our stock market has been correcting itself for quite some time. It appears that the major correction is on...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Is #BlackLivesMatter a criminal organization that advocates attacks on and murder of White police officers? That’s the snake-oil pitch...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist As we enter the 2016 political campaign season with numerous candidates for president of the United States in...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Mother Made a Mess of Our Family Dear Alma, I am the oldest of my mother’s children and have taken...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Led by Fox News, conservatives are trying to discredit the #Black Lives Matter Movement by claiming incorrectly that it...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Alison Parker, a rookie news reporter at WDJB, the Roanoke, Va. CBS affiliate, had turned 24 just days before she...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Katrina does not need the word “Hurricane” as a descriptor; we are on a first name basis with her. Thousands...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I used to play video games. I would play various video games, including those involving warfare and shooting. I...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “It is necessary to reaffirm that employment is necessary for society, for families and for individuals. Its primary value...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist After the horror of the racist terrorist murders in Charleston, S.C., many of us have been crying out with...
By Willie Jolley NNPA Columnist Steve Gilliland is a motivational personality who did not read about rags to riches stories – he lived one. Today,...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I have seen many successes during my life, but I have never seen anything close to the rollout and...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Karl Marx famously wrote, “History repeats itself, first time as tragedy, second as farce.” So, his ghost must have...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Fighting for freedom and equality comes in numerous different forms, vessels and vocations, particularly in a society with...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Different Parenting Styles Dear Alma, My neighbor and I have been friends for three years. I relocated from out of...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist If you had asked me just a year ago if former Secretary of State and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton would...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist It’s sad enough when a violent crime mesmerizes the nation – such as the murder of nine African Americans...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist There will be many remembrances written in light of the 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. There are...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “So let us restore all that we have cherished from yesterday, and let us rise above the legacy of...
