By Ben Jealous Did you ever wonder whether elections really matter? Well, the Trump Supreme Court majority has answered that question for good. Or, more accurately, they...
By Ben Jealous, President of People For the American Way and Professor of the Practice at the University of Pennsylvania “Do you know how it feels to have the president of...
By Ben Jealous, President of People For the American Way Communities all across the country are facing public safety crises. Crime is rising in ways that...
By Ben Jealous The young man who murdered 10 people in Buffalo, New York on May 14, was out to kill Black people. He chose a...
By Ben Jealous Things are about to get worse for millions of vulnerable people in our country. It looks like the far right-wing majority on the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — I was trained to fight by my grandmother, Mamie Bland Todd. She would often remind me, “Pessimists are right more often, but optimists...
POST NEWS GROUP - There is a long history of bigotry and legal discrimination that directly targeted Asian immigrants and Asian Americans. Over the past year,...
FLORIDA COURIER — Bigoted bureaucrats and discriminatory policies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its Farmers Home Administration lending agency abused Black farmers for decades....
JACKSONVILLE FREE PRESS — News that Pennsylvania put Biden over the top sparked dancing in the streets and tears of joy in many households. So did...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Rockeymoore Cummings defeated Kathleen Matthews, who was the incumbent, for the position. Matthews is a Montgomery County businesswoman. The term for Maryland Democratic...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — One day after Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s historic victory for a second four-year term in a largely Democratic state, he laid out plans...
NNPA NEWSPAPER — “Nationally, a confluence of factors, including a surge of political grassroots activism, resistance to the odious policies emanating from the White House and...
THE AFRO — Maryland HBCU advocates are bracing for another round in court in the twelve-year legal battle to dismantle the state’s dual system of higher...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Maryland Democratic officials said Thursday that a surge in request of absentee ballots for next month’s general election points to a huge turnout...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Democratic challenger Ben Jealous took part Friday in Maryland Municipal League’s annual fall conference at the Westin Hotel
WASHINGTON INFORMER — On the same day Ben Jealous received a formal endorsement from former President Barack Obama, the Maryland gubernatorial hopeful stood Monday alongside Latino...
THE AFRO — Far too many of Maryland’s children are being relegated to a future devoid of competence or hope. This is an unacceptable failing –...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief [FIRST OF TWO ARTICLES] WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A search firm hired by the NAACP ranked Rev. Frederick D. Haynes,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief AUSTIN, Texas (NNPA) – With civil rights legends Andrew Young, John Lewis, Julian Bond and Jesse Jackson looking on, President...
What could they be thinking? by Natalie Cole Special to the NNPA from the Our Weekly The primary and most trustworthy source of news and information...
BALTIMORE (AP) — The NAACP has selected a former House of Representatives clerk as an interim president and CEO while the organization seeks a new leader....
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Dudley Randall’s poem, “It seems to me, said Booker T, I disagree, said W.E.B.” points out an issue that has plagued...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist As I have reflected on the year just ended, I noticed everyone doing their usual year-end lists of the biggest...
