By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist President Obama recently participated in a long overdue panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University. As regular readers of...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Freddie Gray is neither the first, nor will he be the last person to die in police custody. According to...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist As a baby-boomer who grew up on war movies, I thought of veterans as various forms of heroes. I...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist It’s always very challenging for a parent when their child has a serious health condition. It’s even more challenging when...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist When it comes to consumer finance, traditional lenders usually review credit scores before reaching a decision. In general, the higher a...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist I woke up this Tuesday morning to another bomb of sports news dropped on the NFL: “Four-time Super Bowl winning...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist More than any other first lady of the United States of America, Michelle Obama continues to stand above...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The Republican Party doesn’t have a lunatic fringe. It has a lunatic center: a core bloc of White voters and...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Few Hang-out Friends Dear Alma, I have a nice majority of friends. However, I hang out mostly with my cousin....
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The men and women who wear our nation’s uniform are expected to defend our nation at home and abroad. Yet,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist How can you tell when a politician is lying? When he moves his lips. Though originally intended as a...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In December 2009 the airliner I was on touched down in Hanoi, Vietnam. That was my first time to...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist You won’t believe the latest tactics being used by the folks at the national and state levels of the NAACP....
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Are we living in the last days? If so, what are we doing about it? It seems the world is...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The recent Department of Justice report on police and court practices in Ferguson, Mo. put a much needed spotlight...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Considerable fanfare greeted Israel’s airlift of tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews in the 1980s and 1990s. The Israeli government...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, about 1.7 million people will receive their bachelor’s degrees, and another nearly...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Wherever there has been struggle, black women have been identified with that struggle.” – Ella Baker, “The Black Woman...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Our federal government is the biggest consumer of supplies and services in the world. Its procurement laws are...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist There are many different manifestations of racism in America and throughout the world. But there is not a...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist “Americans don’t want to imagine that our racist history is actually an ongoing racist reality. We like to look...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Answering my Critics Dear Alma, I have worked for a large cleaning company for the past 17 years. Our supervisor...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The movie we are watching in Baltimore is a re-run and a sequel. The price of admission has always been...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Baltimore is not Ferguson. That was evident by opposite official reactions to the death of an unarmed African American...
