By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist The movie Selma, which debuted on Christmas Day, is an eerily timely film detailing a history not taught in...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist People must wonder why the United States has been so hard on Cuba for the past 55 years. The...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist At this time of the year everyone is making predictions about the coming year and/or reflections on the past....
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist In the middle of an American turmoil between the police force and African-American men, what I would like in 2014...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Anyone who has been to an emergency room, out-patient clinic or undergone a series of medical tests knows how it...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Rafael Ramos had been a school security guard before he joined the New York City Police Department two years ago....
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist There are critical similarities between the furious controversy in the fall about the Ebola crisis in the U.S. –...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist President Obama’s historic announcement that the U.S. is restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, after more than five decades...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist President Obama’s decision to restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba, following 18 months of secret talks, is one of the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The loudest shouting after the announcement of a thaw in the U.S.-Cuba icy relationship may not have been in...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist Remember these names: Ashley Yates, Johnetta Elzie, and Deray McKesson. They could get an invite to meet President Obama...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “It’s just so overwhelming to see all who have come to stand with us. Look at the masses –...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist One of my mentors asked me why I was so quiet and not making my voice heard in the streets...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The groundswell for criminal justice reform has become nearly daily headline news. Demonstrations spanning the nation and many parts of...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I had an interesting, though brief, discussion with a rich friend about President Obama. He is quite conservative, politically. He...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist I wrote a sports column earlier about domestic violence, triggered by the NFL case of Baltimore Ravens star running back...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist With all of his arrogance and bravado, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has really gotten his nation into a serious conundrum....
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist One of the many questions that hover over President Obama’s historic breakthrough in ending the U.S. government’s half-century-long Cold...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist African Americans are overrepresented among the poor, but it would be a mistake to conclude that all African Americans are...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist A Ring of Pain Dear Alma, I love my husband. We’ve been married for 19 years. About 10 years...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist You can evaluate the quality of life in a society by the way it treats its children. Too many...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist We’ve seen it before: The injustice, the reactions, the non-stop talking and tweeting after yet another headline grabbing tragedy....
By john a. powell NNPA Guest Columnist Thousands recently took to the streets in protest and outrage following a Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “…a country’s conscience sometimes has to be triggered by some inconvenience, because I think a lot of people...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist From Christmas carols to decorations that celebrate the season, the holidays mark the time of year when families and loved...
