By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Last month at the graduation ceremony of Tuskegee University, a historically Black college in Alabama, first lady Michelle...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Fox News blowhards will never admit that in covering the racially-charged swimming pool incident in McKinney, Texas, they blew it....
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In March of 2007, I wrote a column under the headline: “Obama Drama.” It began, “Will the euphoria sweeping through...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The unemployment rate rose just a bit in May, an indicator that Wall Street and Main Street are celebrating because...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist If you want to see up-close what the political right wants to do to public education, take a look...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Your first job brings you more than just a steady paycheck – the experience teaches young people life and...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “Before I went to jail, I didn’t know about a lot of stuff, and, now that I’m aware, I’m paranoid....
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist Twenty must be the magic number. Twenty years ago – on June 5, 1995 – I set foot in Haiti...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Recently, a writer from USA Today wanted to know if the National Black Chamber of Commerce receives money from...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist Last week, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, became the latest $100 million man in the NFL, joining a list...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist It’s not too soon to ask a critical question of citizens of voting age who tend to vote...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist James Baldwin was a gifted author and freedom fighter who made a big difference with his pen in...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The indictment of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert and the disclosure that he may have been sexually involved with...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “In the Northern states, we are not slaves to individuals, not personal slaves, yet in many ways we are slaves...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Three recent and separate enforcement actions involving federal and state agencies together prove how coordinated efforts against housing and credit...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In the context of the responses to the lynchings of African Americans by police and racist citizenry, greater and...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In his speech the night before his murder Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. repeated the Biblical parable of the...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist A couple of weeks ago, law enforcement officials in Mauritania arrested nine people for doing something the government considers radical:...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The Environmental Protection Agency is the “Air Police” for the federal government. It enforces regulations and rules that are...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Serena Jameka Williams is more than one of the greatest tennis players in the world. She comes from...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I only recently embraced my status as an “elder.” Actually, I describe myself as an “episodic elder,” eager enough to...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Offhandedly, I can’t tell you the titles of most of the dances I saw Dudley Williams, the incomparable...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Deciding to Move On Dear Alma, I have been with this person for six years, and we’ve had our up...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When racist attitudes, either conscious or subconscious, are combined with the discretionary powers that law enforcement officers have, the result...
