By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The selection of Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the next leader of the Catholic Church was, in some ways,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist There are some painful things from my childhood in segregated Tuscaloosa, Ala., that I will never forget. At the...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As Black America continues to struggle with high unemployment rates, a new research report by Demos, a public policy organization...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist As a result of Ohio’s Republican Senator Rob Portman’s declaration last week that he now supports homosexual marriage, I am...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The other day I found myself engaged in a casual discussion with someone next to me on an airplane. ...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist As I write, Chaka Khan’s empowering “I’m Every Woman” loops in my head – like a soundtrack. (By the way,...