By Walter L. Fields NNPA Columnist At this moment I don’t need my president to tell me to respect the decision of a tainted grand jury....
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen Nobody knows my sorrow Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen Glory hallelujah! Those...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist In 1983, it was Michael Stewart, 25. He was a graffiti artist who was beaten to death in police...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the aftermath of a Black teen being killed in Ferguson, Mo., former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was...
By Gary L. Bledsoe NNPA Guest Columnist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Once said “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Therein lies much...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last conversation with Harry Belafonte echoed in my head as I watched the Ferguson aftermath send...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist We recently lost Marion Barry, an American icon who changed this nation in ways most don’t understand. I remember coming...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week, civil rights leader and political icon Marion Barry died and barely after he had taken his last breath, the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist President Obama was right on the money in announcing his executive order on immigration. Contrary to the assertion of Republican demagogues,...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist More than 80 members of the clergy from 22 states, representing multiple denominations, converged on Capitol Hill from November 17-19 in...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist During the month of July, the NBA Player’s Association elected Attorney Michele Roberts as their first African-American female executive director, putting...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In the wake of Ferguson and a series of young Black male deaths at the hands of official law enforcement...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Washington, D.C. just lost an icon. In the early morning hours of November 23, D.C.’s Mayor for Life succumbed to some...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Some synonyms of the word “callous” are: heartless, unfeeling, unmerciful, cruel, and inhumane. A mid-November poll by the Gallup organization...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Need to Move On Dear Alma, I have been with this person for six years, and we’ve had our up and...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist “Hey, hey, hey (in my best Fat Albert’s voice), please listen to what I have to say. My friend Bill Cosby...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander will likely become chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Though he has yet...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist Even though the next Congress, which starts on January 6, will feature 48 African Americans, the largest number in history, the...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist As we prepare to commemorate World AIDS Day on Monday, Dec. 1, this is a good time to look at...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Since the November 4 elections, there has been a broad and needed discussion concerning what the Democrats did wrong or,...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist In the face of a calculated and relentless assault by Republicans on Barack Obama, a president with a dismal approval...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The midterm elections have upended the old tropes about what you can or can’t do or say about guns during...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Here’s a sobering statement from Economic Policy Institute (EPI): “Fifty years ago (2013), the unemployment rate was 5% for Whites and...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist As I watched President Barack Obama address the nation on his “controversial” Executive Order on immigration reform, I was...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist A recent poll showing that White, Black and Hispanic New Yorkers differ significantly in evaluating new city mayor Bill De...
