By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist When it comes to assessing the nation’s housing industry, one key measure that all housing industry stakeholders take note of is...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist It is very important that we focus on building strong households and foundations that will survive the test of time. We...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist Obstruction by congressional Republicans has been a major obstacle for President Obama for four of his six years in office. ...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The world is rightly on edge over the latest appearance of the lethal Ebola virus. President Obama has committed American...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When it comes to matters of trade and economics, experts are eager to speak of “globalization.” People are keen to talk...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The Congressional Black Caucus in its short history has basically been a bastion of progressive or liberal thinkers. Of the...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist As Major League Baseball rolls through the post-season toward crowning another World Series Champion, its biggest national news story was...
By Wellington E. Webb NNPA Guest Columnist Some people have asked me why I strongly oppose Internet gambling and I can sum it up in...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa is a global health emergency. Countries around the world...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Justice for 17-year-old Jordan Davis, who was murdered by Michael Dunn in Jacksonville, Fla. on Nov. 23, 2012 in...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. hasn’t left the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building yet, but civil rights...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist I know you political junkies are on the edge of your seats now that Dr. Ben Carson has said he...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Black Democrats are the most despised people on the face of this earth and they have worked hard to deserve this...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist It’s been two months since Daniel Pantaleo strangled Eric Garner, 48, to death on a sidewalk in Staten Island, N.Y....
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “Throughout his long career in public service, Eric has built a powerful legacy of making sure that equal justice under the...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Is it me or does it seem like the powers that be are trying to have a Ebola virus scare in...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “If I could sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.” –Mrs. Rosa Parks, honorary co-chair, 1996 Stand for...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Minority business programs came to life as a compliance requirement for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ...
By Rep. Frederica S. Wilson NNPA Guest Columnist In 2012, 17-year-old Ivins Rosier broke into Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Robert Boody’s West Palm Beach home. Ivins...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Amid heightened concern in the U.S. about the ferocious Ebola disease, two prominent Republican officeholders last week seized upon the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The Supreme Court recently blocked an appeals court ruling that would have restored seven days of voting in Ohio. In just...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The purpose of public schools is to educate not exclude children, and to help identify and meet child needs, not...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A college education is supposed to open the doors to life-long careers and entry into America’s middle class. Yet, students that...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand, it never did and never will.” I often wonder what Black people...
