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...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Tennessee Williams said, “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that is also a hypocrite.” I could...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist Over the past weekend, I had a chance to a representative of the National Alliance of African-American Athletes (NAAAA) to...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist On December 10, President Obama hosted a White House Summit on Early Education, bringing together a broad coalition of...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Unlike the Republican National Committee (RNC), our national party apparatus, most of the 50 state party committees are stuck in...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Tourism is a very important part to any nation’s economy. A nation that does not have a tourism structure...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist You may not have heard about this. Earlier this month, a piece of legislation was introduced in the Michigan state legislature...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The understandable attention being focused on differing attitudes among Whites and Blacks toward law enforcement authorities in the wake of...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Friend Won’t Let Go of Ex Dear Alma, My friend is a single mother. Her husband left her and their...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Now, in the season that’s supposed to exalt goodwill toward all, comes fresh evidence of the important role the White...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist “I can’t breathe,” gasped Eric Garner, again and again and again. “I can’t breathe,” he said, as several police officers were...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist “I can’t believe that in the 21st century in the United States of America, we can’t get a simple...
