By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist If there was ever a propitious time for African Americans and Latino Americans to unite to advance the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist On the heels of allowing a campaign follower in New Hampshire to assert unchallenged last week that President Obama...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The emergence of the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has reached the scale of “phenomenal.” What many...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Here is something to think about as we watch the political circus that is currently dominating the news: Black people...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Is Patrick Lynch, president of the New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, obliged to defend his members even when they are...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Citizens of the United States have had enough with incompetence by local police forces. Incompetence is a kind word...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Damien Durr is a brilliant young man who grew up in Ohio in a family of teachers where education...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist At one time or another, many consumers have fallen behind on paying their bills. For the working poor, unemployed and...
By Willie Jolley NNPA Columnist Rejection! At one point or another, everyone experiences rejection. Being told “no,” “not now,” “not you,” “you’re not the one” and...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Citizens of America: While you were distracted last week by, among other things, the Republican Party’s marathon, second primary...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist What is important to 45 million Black Americans today should be important to all Americans. Yet, as the...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Can’t Stand My Niece Dear Alma, I can’t stand my niece and it’s my sister’s fault. She made her daughter...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Almost as surprising as Barack Obama’s election as the nation’s first African American president is his success in not...
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...
