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...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I am deeply concerned by the sorts of emails and hard-mail communications that I have been receiving from you folks. The...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “When I become mayor, we all become mayor.” – Ras Baraka, new mayor of Newark, N.J. Add Newark to the list...
By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist Several years ago, I had the pleasure of serving on a panel with the angriest racially-conscious White man in America,...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Presidential Program for the Development of the Afro-Colombian Population – that is the name of the program to empower...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Teen Wants to Chill with ‘Boyfriend’ Dear Alma, My 17-year old-daughter claims she has a boyfriend. I said no u...
By Luke Charles Harris Special to the NNPA News Service I’ve been told I should be the first among many to celebrate President Obama’s My...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist If you let the Republicans tell it, President Obama is directly responsible for the fiasco at the Veterans Administration. But...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Donald Sterling, the disgraced San Diego Clippers owner (thus far), is like the proverbial bad penny: he won’t go...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The last Monday in May, Memorial Day, was designed to honor those who died in service to our country. It is...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Black women constantly complain about the dearth of “eligible” Black men to date and marry. Noted sociologist William Julius Wilson has...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The current controversy surrounding the plight of veterans in the United States is an important issue for all...
