By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Many people will remember Maya Angelou for her phenomenal career. She was a true renaissance woman – an author, teacher, dancer, performer, radio...
By Cassiette West-Williams Special to the NNPA The news of Maya Angelou’s death brought a very poignant memory back to my college days, when I...
By Benjamin F. Chavis NNPA Columnist Millions of people throughout the world continue to pause, to remember, to celebrate and to recommit to the living...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist A new posting by MediaMatters.org, the media watchdog group, sums up the conservative strategy under the headline, “Don’t Litigate It,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist At first glance, one might be hard-pressed to think that a recent opinion piece on the 1970s origins of...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Last week, Google made the bold and necessary decision to release information about their employment diversity, detailing the race...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Since the economic crash of 2008, I think everyone has had to make adjustments – except the federal government –...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist When my brother friend Dr. Vincent Harding passed away May 19 at age 82, we lost a beloved historian,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Imagine the U.S. dollar being worthless. Picture millionaires and billionaires becoming “thousand-aires” overnight. Think about the possibility of 200 million U.S. citizens...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist If there was one key lesson from the recession it is that financial services need effective regulation. It took billions...