By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington is an important event not only because it recalls a landmark era...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The 1963 March on Washington was a pivotal moment for African Americans, a day when people joined to fight for jobs,...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Fifty years to the day that Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and its Chairman, Reince Priebus hosted a great 50th anniversary commemoration of the March...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In the midst of varying proposals for housing reform, civil rights leaders are publicly calling for lawmakers to keep mortgage lending...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Being poor doesn’t always mean being without resources. Anacostia is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., yet the total...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist How can there be honest negotiations when one side – which has the lion’s share of the weapons, including a...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago on this August 28, hundreds of thousands of citizens gathered in our nation’s capital to fight...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Isn’t it fascinating how a person can have a single idea or dream planted, take root and change the world as...
By Ryan Cooper Special to the NNPA from the Los Angeles Sentinel About three years ago, in late March 2010, Shirley Sherrod, who was then the...