By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Dear Alma, I am a 25-year-old man. I consider myself very nice and caring. I live with a woman I met...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Voter suppression is alive and well, especially in the state of North Carolina, where a Republican official, Don Yelton, proved himself...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Republicans have made it clear that their next budget goal is to slash so-called entitlement programs. Democrats have failed...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist My barber shook his head as I sat down in his chair. He was deeply disturbed by the Tea Party...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower After...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The federal jobs reports for September issued last week showed the year’s slow – and therefore, disappointing – rate of...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Hardly a week goes by when there is not a tragic story of a teenager committing suicide. Tragic as these...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist A new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) found that many of the same types of loan servicing problems...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The strike of football players at the legendary Grambling State University received attention across the world. GSU President Frank...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist I recently visited a Hip Hop 101 class on the campus of Temple University in Philadelphia and was enlightened by the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “In the 1960s, when my grandfather was teaching me to drive in his little red Ford Falcon, there was an...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I have never seen so much venom, evil and dishonesty coming from a presidential administration as the one we...
NNPA Guest Columnist Having spent my youth and adult years actively engaged in civil rights advocacy, not much surprises me when I hear of incidents...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Rather than gloat over the Republicans getting their clocks cleaned in the government shutdown fiasco, it’s worth Blacks taking time to...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Should I Get Involved or Mind my Business? Dear Alma, A male friend of mine moved to my city for a 6-month...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Believe it or not, President Obama’s decision to finally stand up to Teapublicans – a Republican Party hijacked by...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Now that the GOP-manufactured economic crisis is over (for the several months, anyway), one might say the lesson for the...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist An adage advises that one man’s pain is another man’s gain. As consumers nationwide struggle to recover financially from the Great...
by Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist After insisting that the Washington football team would not change its name, Daniel Snyder, the team’s owner, decided to get...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The brilliant surgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson is out of order and out of control when he compares the Affordable Care Act...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “At a moment when President Obama and Republican leaders remain deeply divided, this week saw them come to a bipartisan...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist [We found that] if we created the right wraparound programs, the right preschool programs that were strong enough and rigorous...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Was the book 1984 by George Orwell a required school reading for you? If it was you would know that Orwell introduced Big...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Two weeks ago, I was sent a video of a Hispanic woman interrupting a speech by Jeff Stratton, president of...
