By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York is in the news against, this time allegedly for officer brutalizing inmates. I...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist For much of this month I was experiencing flashes of déjà vu. It’s come from watching the demonstrators in...
By Jesse L. Jackson NNPA Columnist Politicians seeking political advantage blame the Central American children crisis on President Obama. They demand that the border be...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “None of us had any real education in social change. I was a biology major and a preacher. And...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Supporting education and training for our youth is a smart investment that can help rebuild local economies and pay...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The idea hit me last week during the international panel at our 22nd annual conference in Chicago. Speaking on the...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Little Brother Working My Last Nerve Dear Alma, My little brother is getting on my last nerve. He is 32 and...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, arguably the most overrated U.S. president in history, there they go again. They, of course, are...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Those who’ve found it difficult to connect with the racial history of post-Civil War America – when Black Americans were...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Each year the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University assesses the nation’s housing outlook. The recently-released The State of the...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist How amazing it is that Black people in this nation, collectively, are the worst off but yet the most comical, entertaining,...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Former U.S. Rep. Parren Mitchell (D-Md.) once told me, “It is long overdue for Black Americans to understand the...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Lately, Hip Hop news has been fueled with beef and rants of all kinds. Meek Mill is beefing with Wale because...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist It’s mid-July. Do you know if your children are learning? Just a month ago they were eager to leave the regimentation...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I wrote a column three years ago titled, “Black Women No Longer Have Their Essence.” My point was that Essence, the pre-eminent magazine...
By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist The body count continues to rise as the nation panders to gun zealots and allows the Constitution to be perverted. The...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I was strolling down a very busy Broadway in New York City a couple of weeks ago. It was a...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Nelba Márquez-Greene is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has spent her life helping others. In December 2012 she...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist It appears nearly impossible for our nation to have an orderly and simple immigration program. It should be quite easy...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist My Sister’s Risky Behavior Dear Alma, My sister and I are very close. We’re only three years apart. Although not roommates...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Rev. Jamal Bryant of Baltimore was widely criticized recently for quoting a line from a popular Chris Brown’s song: “Hoes Ain’t...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two decisions that the Court’s conservative majority and the larger conservative movement pretended...
By Bill Fletcher Jr. NNPA Columnist The Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Harris v Quinn essentially means that personal care attendants who are represented by a...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist You’ve probably heard the advertisements on urban radio urging consumers with at least $10,000 in debt to call a number right...
