By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist I became an admirer of Jimmy Carter shortly after he took office as the nation’s 39th president. I was 12...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist On August 1, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization began a journey that will cover 860 miles...
By Melvin P. Foote NNPA Columnist Over the past year, I have written and publicly commented often about Nigeria. Some of the things that I...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Taken every five years and published in phases over two or three years, the Economic Census of Black-owned businesses has...
By Willie Jolley NNPA Columnist With revenues in excess of $5 billion and more than 2,200 employees in 48 states and six countries, World Wide...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist When I was growing up, my parents constantly tried to be and to expose us to good role models....
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Our competitive spirit strengthens our culture. America is the number one economy and the strongest nation on earth. We...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The more things change, the more they stay the same. Racially motivated murder of young Black Americans across...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist It’s getting more and more difficult to keep up with the lengthening list of people, groups, and nations the...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Indirectly Subsidizing my Ex Dear Alma, My wife is vicious with a capital V! We were married for 8...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Conservatives are attacking Planned Parenthood so viciously that you would be forgiven if you thought that the organization was...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The 17-person race for the Republican nomination for president closely resembles a clown show, starring Donald Trump. The unfortunate contrast...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “I’ll see your two Blacks and raise you two more.” The vast majority of the news is centered on politics,...
By Walter L. Fields NNPA Columnist One of the enduring debates since the enslavement of Africans in the American colonies has been the extent to...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist This week in Houston, the nation’s oldest minority professional real estate trade association held its 68th annual convention. Founded in...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The country has lost one of its most passionate and eloquent voices for the cause of justice. He...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I had been unaware that Julian Bond had been ill. I was, therefore, quite surprised to read that he...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist As a new school year starts, many parents are making sure their children have the right supplies from their...
By Willie Jolley NNPA Columnist Michael Beckwith started a unique community in 1986 when he founded the Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles. In...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist At bottom, the plan of Donald Trump, the GOP’s political playboy, to “solve” America’s crisis of undocumented Latino immigration...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Whenever I have an opportunity to rejoin the transformational activities of the civil rights organization that was founded...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist My Best Friend is Marrying ‘Wicked Witch of the North” Dear Alma, This is a question about my best friend....
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist After three days of peaceful demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s fatal shooting in Ferguson, Mo.,...
By Jesse Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The news this weekend that Julian Bond passed away at 75 saddened me deeply. America has lost a true...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Horace Julian Bond was born Jan. 14, 1940 in Nashville, Tenn. into a family of privilege. His father, Horace...
