By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week I attended a very nice reception hosted by two of my friends, Rosa Whitaker and Bernadette Paolo. Rosa...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In mid-March, the monitor for the National Mortgage Settlement announced that participating banks had completed terms of the agreement affecting...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Opening day for Major League Baseball always puts a smile on my face. This is the day that many of...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In light of what most of us know about the economy and where Black people fit, mostly as consumers rather than...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist History is full of great dreamers. The United States has certainly prospered from some of the greatest. Blacks can...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist My Ex-Girlfriend is Mom’s New Daughter Dear Alma, Help! My mother loves my ex-girlfriend. She treats her like a daughter....
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Margarita “Maggie” Anderson wants to transform “Buy Black” from a leftover 1960s slogan to a modern economic empowerment strategy. And...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist Friday, April 4, marks the 46th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination on a balcony in Memphis. Black America and...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as...
By Phil Wilson NNPA Columnist On March 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded $115 million over five years to 21 organizations to...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist If you missed the news about the disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370 over the Indian Ocean, you must have been...
By Bill Fletcher NNPA Columnist I have found myself getting a bit nervous as I hear various U.S. politicians rattling their swords in response to...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist “It cannot be said that the employed scholarship players are ‘primarily students.’” With that statement, a regional director...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist History is often made by leaders who make a consequential difference in quality of life of people. The...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Our nation is about to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the assassination of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 4,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist We are at a critical stage in the economy when “more than one-third of workers (36%) have a measly $1,000...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Apple’s success story is a familiar one: a group of misfits who grew an unlikely startup from the confines of...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist To Tell or Not to Tell Hi, Alma, The mom of one of my 10-year-old daughter’s friends confided in me...
George E. Curry NNPA Columnist When I interviewed Marie Johns, then the outgoing deputy secretary of the Small Business Administration, a year ago, she said the...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Question: What do you call someone who believes White shopkeepers and owners of other large and small businesses have the...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Two weeks ago, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) set off a firestorm of controversy by saying on the syndicated radio talk show...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist In a world that is dominated by men, especially White men, feminism is, for me, an empowering concept. It is a...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Last week, the Obama Administration declared war on 1 million underserved students pursuing higher education throughout the United States. While...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Alright team, here we are again approaching the midterm elections. Having won both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, we...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The Kenyan Proverb, “When elephants fight, the grass suffers,” is apropos to us, the grassroots. Only in our case, we are...
