Employees Began Returning Thursday By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Barack Obama signed a bill into law early Thursday morning that ended...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After repeatedly praising Dr. Martin Luther King., Jr., for leading a movement in the 1950s and...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist As we draw nearer to one of the most relevant events in history, an event that has been revered and immortalized...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Women serve in almost every high-powered job in the United States: CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, Senators, university presidents,...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist We have these programs from the blood, sweat and tears of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The aphorism, “A friend in need is a friend indeed,” is especially relevant to the conversations being held among Black...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “’I’m learning that milestones are a very difficult thing to get through in this first year . . ....
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The term “payday loans” often evokes images of stores with garish neon signs; but these products have moved into the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I read the speech. I read it carefully. Again, an excellent speech; as a result, you have to read...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Do you still believe what U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice was saying during her infamous five Sunday show appearances? By now,...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Like too many events since the beginning of the Obama presidency, various attacks on the administration by the Republicans...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Speaking to the newly-minted graduates of Atlanta’s historically Black and all-male Morehouse College May 19, President Obama urged them...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist These are very wild times here in Washington, D.C. We are four big scandals going on that could threaten...
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By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Remember back-in-the-day when you used to poke your mouth out, bug your parents (or whatever adult was in charge) about...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist There is no easy way or walk to freedom; no shortcuts to justice; no quick fix for conceiving and constructing...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The Obama administration deserves to be richly criticized for surreptitiously obtaining the telephone records of reporters for the Associated...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Over the past few weeks, President Obama has made comments that seemed to signal his support for expanding LNG...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I was flipping through the TV channels last week and came across one of Spike Lee’s best movies, School Daze. This...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Last year, James Porter, the recently-elected president of the National Rifle Association, declared that President Obama was a “fake...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist President Obama recently nominated Melvin (Mel) Watt, a long-time North Carolina Congressman, to direct the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)....
By William Reed NNPA Columnist The sequester is but a bump on the road to America’s real ruin. For those who don’t know, the U.S. is...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist For someone who seems to revel in being silent during the Supreme Court’s traditionally lively oral arguments – when...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist When President Obama was first elected, in 2008, much of the world waited to see what sort of changes...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The right wing seems determined to associate President Obama with any government program that helps people on the bottom. Thus, the...
