By Patricia Maryland, Dr.PH (NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist) As America grapples with prescription opioid addiction, an epidemic shattering communities across our nation, healthcare providers face a...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Keith Lamont Scott was killed by a police officer on Tuesday, September 20, in Charlotte, N.C. The officer, dressed in...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA Newswire Managing Editor) The recent extrajudicial killings of three Black males, including a 13 year-old boy, have sparked protests across the U.S....
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The struggles of an interracial marriage, families divided by race, religion and politics and the conversion of one Jewish...
[FINALCALL.COM/NNPA MEMBER] “I’m not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black people and people of color. To...
[NYTIMES.COM] In the New Museum’s lobby on Thursday night, a circle of women, all dressed in red, swayed from side to side, clapping as they chanted...
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By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer) Russell Simmons is as afraid of a confrontation with police as most other Black men. However, despite...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I am quite fond of saying about Republicans when it comes to Blacks, “Even when they try to do...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) After Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Falcon Heights, Minnesota there was Dallas, Texas. After rogue cops unceremoniously killed two Black...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Just a day after millions of Americans celebrated the “Fourth of You Lie,” our nation got more evidence of...
By Tatyana Hopkins (NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow, Michigan Chronicle) The lawyers of wrongfully convicted Davontae Sanford said it was clear from the beginning that he was innocent...
By Marian Wright Edelman (President of the Children’s Defense Fund) “So Dad has joined the other [ancestors] up there. I feel that they do watch and...
[MSNBC.COM] One of the six officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray was found not guilty on all counts in Baltimore Monday. Baltimore...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA News Wire Contributor) Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School Senior David Pulphus won this year’s congressional art competition with a painting...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson deserves high props. The young man used his activism as a platform to...
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[THE GUARDIAN] Prominent Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson announced on Wednesday night that he will run for mayor of Baltimore, a move that could shake...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist There is no debate concerning the irrefutable fact that The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist In progressive policy circles, and during the Democratic presidential debates, people are talking about income inequality. Though this phenomenon...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist Whenever we begin a new calendar year, it can be useful to make New Year’s Resolutions to...
By Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA News Wire from Houston Forward Times “Houston Police Department Officer Juventino Castro shot and killed Jordan Baker without...
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By Sarafina Wright Special to the NNPA News Wire from the Washington Informer For many elders who participated in the Black Liberation Movement of the ’60s...
