By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist African American students achieve at a different level than White students. Test scores are lower, as are high school and college...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Ask anyone you know and you’ll find most Americans don’t see the validity of the issue of reparations for Blacks...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Sequestration is like the sand in an hour glass. When the sand starts falling, it does not seem to...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist In American politics, many object to power flowing through blood rather than through the ballot. A “dynasty” is a sequence of...
Composer and producer Ray Chew, also an accomplished keyboardist, is in his third season as musical director of “American Idol.” — SUBMITTED PHOTO Having put his...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Within a matter of days late last month, four controversies erupted that acutely underscore the crux of Black Americans continuing...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Why do Black Americans allow the war on drugs’ unfair toll on people of color to continue? Instead of putting a stop...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama has the opportunity, in this second term, to put his feet on history. He won an election...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Yes, I said, “Reclaiming,” which obviously means doing it again. There was a time in this nation when Black people...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The recent joint announcement by two key federal regulators believed a negotiated agreement with 10 mortgage servicing firms would help...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In consideration of the latest shenanigans from Congress as it pertains to the economic conditions facing most Americans these days, unemployment...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist How will African Americans improve our situation in 2013? Right now, we have higher unemployment than any other population in...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist According to findings from the Center for Responsible Lending’s newest report, The State of Lending in America and Its Impact on...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Channel surfing over the weekend, I stopped on a favorite old romantic comedy that was centered on a relationship that...
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 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 Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist I love this time of the year. Oh, yes – the holidays, too – but, I am referring to the release...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist President Obama’s decisive victory in this year’s presidential election signaled a shift in both demographics and attitude in America. While...
by Akeya Dickson Washington NNPA Correspondent The laying on of hands on one’s mother is obviously no bueno. Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant apparently didn’t...
by Akeya Dickson NNPA Washington Correspondent So far this year, there have been 263 murders in Chicago, a 39 percent increase over last year’s 189 homicides....
by Akeya Dickson NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As more people become covered as a result of the Affordable Care Act recently upheld by the...
by Akeya Dickson NNPA Washington Correspondent ATLANTA (NNPA) – When the lights darken, the curtains draw open and a story unfolds on stage, the energy of...
By Akeya Dickson Washington Correspondent NNPA News Service As the interest rates on higher education loans ratchet up higher and higher year to year, loan forgivingness...
