By Jeffrey Boney (Houston Forward Times/NNPA Member) Black players in the National Football League have been described as ungrateful, thugs, sons of b***hes and inmates by...
By Lynette Monroe (Program Assistant, NNPA ESSA Media Campaign) In my role as the program assistant for the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) Every Student Succeeds...
By Rushern Baker (County Executive, Prince Georges County, Md.) On November 4, 1952, Dr. Helen Kenyon addressed the Women’s Society of Riverside Church in New York...
By Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. (President and CEO, Thurgood Marshall College Fund) The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) recently held its 17th Annual Leadership Institute (LI)...
By Charlene Crowell (Deputy Communications Director, Center for Responsible Lending) It’s that time of year again when auto dealers try to make room in their showrooms...
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO, NNPA) There is no debate about the continuing historic importance and strategic mission and purpose of the...