By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist This past weekend I went to a casting call for a video series. No, I was not personally auditioning. I...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist We first visited Cuba in 2000. There was so much to see that we visited twice that year (August and...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Asking Someone Out Dear Alma, I am a divorced man in my early fifties. I have been debating asking out a...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist As we approach Fathers’ Day across the United States and in some other nations throughout the world, it...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Not every speaker tells a crowd of young leaders that their job is to get into trouble. But that’s...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist I disagree with President Obama’s decision to trade five Taliban leaders being held at Guantanamo Bay for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl,...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist The biggest complaints I get from Black journalists when it comes to Republican officeholders and Party leaders is that they...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist One of the classic commercials of the 1970s, when technological advances in food processing made it possible to enhance...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “We hear your calling/ And we begin by giving you 100 years/ Of loving defense/ We shall encourage the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist As young people graduate from high school, or finish the school year as sophomores and juniors, they begin to search...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist There has arisen a peculiar phenomenon over the past seven years. Conservative legislatures in states such as Florida and Wisconsin...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A Texas mayor could soon move from City Hall to the nation’s capital. On May 23, San Antonio native and...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist On March 17, Obama administration took aim at career colleges and schools across the country with a new raft...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Alcoholic Parents Dear Alma, My Dad and my Stepmom have been together for over 20 years. They both have and...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Many people will remember Maya Angelou for her phenomenal career. She was a true renaissance woman – an author, teacher, dancer, performer, radio...
By Cassiette West-Williams Special to the NNPA The news of Maya Angelou’s death brought a very poignant memory back to my college days, when I...
By Benjamin F. Chavis NNPA Columnist Millions of people throughout the world continue to pause, to remember, to celebrate and to recommit to the living...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist A new posting by MediaMatters.org, the media watchdog group, sums up the conservative strategy under the headline, “Don’t Litigate It,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist At first glance, one might be hard-pressed to think that a recent opinion piece on the 1970s origins of...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Last week, Google made the bold and necessary decision to release information about their employment diversity, detailing the race...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Since the economic crash of 2008, I think everyone has had to make adjustments – except the federal government –...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist When my brother friend Dr. Vincent Harding passed away May 19 at age 82, we lost a beloved historian,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Imagine the U.S. dollar being worthless. Picture millionaires and billionaires becoming “thousand-aires” overnight. Think about the possibility of 200 million U.S. citizens...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist If there was one key lesson from the recession it is that financial services need effective regulation. It took billions...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist It’s gonna be hell up in Harlem this month. The race for New York’s 13th Congressional District’s Democratic primary has the once...
