By Ron Busby, Sr. NNPA Columnist A recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) story detailed the inability of Black-owned businesses to be approved for SBA-backed loans made through...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ran on a campaign to fund full-day public preschool for all New York...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I am totally perplexed by Republicans who advocate amnesty for those who entered the U.S. illegally. We Republicans are supposed...
From Samuel L. Myers, Jr. Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs University of Minnesota Dear...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Procter & Gamble enjoys a long, proud history as a major Cincinnati employer. Its history goes back more than 175...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Loved Like a Son Dear Alma, I am 35 and my sweet lady is 57. I love her and she...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When John and Ann started working on January 1, 2013, John had an immediate advantage. Because women earn 77 cents...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Could you use an additional $24,000 in your yearly wages? How about nearly $19,000? Or even just another $11,000 to...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Covering the three-day celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act at the University of Texas last...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist One of the best kept secrets over the past 50 years is that, proportionately, Republicans in Congress supported passage of the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist When I first heard the news, my response was one of both outrage and a calm lack of surprise....
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Affluent Americans would do quite well. But for tens of millions of others, the Ryan plan is a path...
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By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “. . . We see repeated efforts in Congress in recent years to take resources away from poor and...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Major League Baseball’s home run king, Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron has just knocked another one out of the park. ...
By Everett Glenn NNPA Guest Columnist The recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision granting Northwestern University football players the right to unionize, if upheld,...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As 21st Century employers continue to seek a highly-trained workforce, the marketable value of a college education has never been higher....
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Racial discrimination does exist in this world but certainly not at the level it did prior to the Civil Rights...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist An Expensive Invitation Dear Alma, Three years after my divorce I met a really nice man. I am 34 years...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist You would think that news of a high school student from a family of African immigrants getting accepted into...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Whenever there is a steady series of public questions being raised about the “power” of Black Americans, you...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I love voting. Every time I go into the booth, I see little girl me, pigtails and all, plaid skirt, white...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Last week the U.S. Supreme Court added another layer of bricks to the wall conservatives are trying to build to...
By Jesse L Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The Bible’s injunction that we shall be judged by how we have treated the “least of these” (Mathew 25:40)...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Today, almost one year after I first wrote about Ka’nard Allen, his story—and the stories of several other children whose...
