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...
[MSNBC] African-Americans are 25 percent more likely to die from cancer than white Americans are, and the reasons are numerous, including lower socio-economic status, poorer access to health care,...
[The Washington Post] For six years, their parents had nagged and prodded and pressed them to perform. Now this group of African American seniors in Loudoun...
[News One] A recent study suggests that African-American couples affected by the trials of prostate cancer face emotional challenges that increase the burden of combating the disease. Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer...
