By Robert McWhirter NNPA Guest Columnist The church shooting in Charleston, S.C. once again showed us the connection of guns and race. Statistics of inner city gun...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist My late mother’s favorite hymn was “Amazing Grace.” Her favorite version was sung by the great Mahalia Jackson. Oh,...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Each year the many forms and products of predatory lending drain at minimum hundreds of billions of dollars from the...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Now there are some ‘practical’ things we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Has the pernicious fiction that there was something honorable about the Confederate rebellion–treason in the defense of slavery, as...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Though the keynote address was delivered 163 years ago in Rochester, N.Y. on the significance of the 4th...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Unwanted Photos of my Ex-Husband I recently decided to digitize my old photos and ran across a ton of family...
(The New York Times) — A Supreme Court ruling last week forcefully reminded state and local governments that the Fair Housing Act of 1968 forbids them...
Adam Taylor, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — As the debate about the use of the Confederate flag raged in the United States this...
Special to the NNPA via The North Dallas Gazette As part of the American Heart Association’s Strategically Focused Research Network focusing on Disparities in Heart...