By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The kind of beauty I want is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within: strength, courage, dignity.” -Ruby Dee In the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist On June 14th I had the honor of giving the undergraduate commencement address at Seattle Pacific University. Commencement speakers usually do...
By Phill Wilson NNPA Guest Columnist Do you know your HIV status? Do you know the HIV status of your intimate partner(s)? Do all of your...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist There is probably no poverty pimp that is lower than a leech. This type of hustler wants to suck up...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist My Husband Embarrassed Me Dear Alma, We were recently at a cookout at my cousin’s house and I went over...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When the Koch Foundation gave the United Negro College Fund $25 million, it set off a maelstrom of comments in...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist June’s three most striking domestic political events thus far all have in common the same force that has uniformly characterized...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The first detailed study of the relationship between diversity and the bottom line in the Hollywood entertainment industry has found...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist With outstanding student loans totaling more than $1trillion and still counting, the White House and Congress have proposed measures to ease...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In a 2010 report titled, “Lifting as we Climb: Women of Color, Wealth, and America’s Future,” posted by Insight – Center...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The long protracted struggle of African Americans for freedom, justice and equality is recognized as a vital and important...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “In Fiscal Year 2013, the City procured $16.5 billion worth of goods and services and only $439 million went to...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist This column is not about the recent story making headlines in New York City on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week’s defeat of House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor sent shock waves throughout D.C. like I have never seen before. ...
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...
