The fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, by a white Ferguson, Missouri, policeman was a catalyst for change in the St. Louis...
By Marquesa LaDawn NNPA Columnist In the Braxton’s world, things are looking up. After heated arguments, a reality check from King TD Jakes, some internal...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist DETROIT (NNPA) – Although the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado Crew Cab is a big truck at almost 5,500 pounds, it...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Thursday, Aug. 6, marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1965 Voting Rights Act into...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Had I ever met Sandra Bland, I am sure I would have liked her. She is described as an advocate...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Sandra Bland is dead. While many are concentrating on “how” she died, we must also face the reality of “why”...
By Oscar Blayton NNPA Guest Columnist In the depths of the Cold War that raged in the early 1960s, the USSR was scoring points against...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the world’s leading peace and justice advocates, has called Bryan Stevenson “America’s...
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo NNPA Columnist Many years ago, as a single man in my early 30s, I dated a young, attractive West African woman. I liked...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist August 17 will mark the 128th birthday of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the visionary Jamaican-born leader who built the Universal Negro...
