By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Over the span of one week, two different sides of President Obama emerged in different yet unforgettable terms. This first...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The horrendous news from Newtown, Conn. has pierced our hearts. A black-clad man in his 20s armed with two semi-automatic...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I was in a cab just the other day when the driver chided me for not knowing football. He was a...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist What is it about Democratic presidents and Black women that result in the women always being thrown under the bus? Black...
By Benjamin Todd Jealous NNPA Guest Columnist Every generation believes their children deserve to be better off than they were. This belief inspired the first slave...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist In the first report of its kind, the Center for Responsible Lending has examined consumer lending markets across-the-board and found that...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” This famous quote from Frederick Douglass brings to...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist My family went to see “Lincoln,” the much advertised and critically acclaimed new film by Steven Spielberg. The plot...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I was recently in South Africa for a conference. While there, I had two interesting experiences that raised the complications...