By Bill Fletcher, Jr. (NNPA Newswire Columnist) It hit me the other day that there is a new protocol involved in walking down the street. I...
By Armstrong Williams (NNPA Newswire Columnist) In recent days, the media has been abuzz with speculation over cabinet appointments within the incoming President-elect Donald Trump administration....
By James Clingman (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Negroes…sometimes choose their own leaders but unfortunately they are too often the wrong kind. Negroes do not readily follow persons...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) When Donald Trump was running for President, he specifically targeted the “White working class,” telling them that he’d prevent their...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) A 2011 case that was filed in Manhattan’s U.S. District Court led to a 5-week trial in Houston and a...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King once said, “one of the shameful tragedies [of our nation] is that eleven o’clock...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) In 1984, at age 33, Ben Carson became the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins Hospital. He...
By Kia Soto (NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist) Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill, who is presiding over Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial, has a glaring conflict...
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, My husband said he no longer believes in God. He did when I met him and when...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) A series of developments following the Wells Fargo scandal has now led to the introduction of legislation designed to bring...
By Harry C. Alford (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Born on August 13, 1926 out of wedlock on his father’s sugarcane farm in the third world nation of...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. (NNPA Newswire Columnist) I have been trying to figure out how there can be any discussion of registering Muslims due to alleged...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Professor Deva Woodly teaches political science at the New School for Social Research in New York. During a recent talk,...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) President-elect Donald Trump owes the Black community absolutely nothing. Let me repeat that: HE OWES US NOTHING! Blacks gave Trump...
By Armstrong Williams (NNPA Newswire Columnist) The election of Donald J. Trump signals very dark days ahead. Not for the American people, of course, but for...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Last week, I was watching some NBA games on TNT and one of the game’s announcers was famed broadcaster Marv...
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, Alma, I’m wondering what’s going on with Kanye West? Do you think there are some underlying reasons...
By James Clingman (NNPA Newswire Columnist) “When the axe came into the Forest, the trees said, ‘The handle is one of us.’” — Macedonian Axiom “A...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Kanye West is melting down. He didn’t perform to expectations at two concert dates, declaring, at one, that he would...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO of the NNPA) Racism is a malignant, powerful, and harmful reality for millions of persons of color throughout...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The leadership of the Democratic Party, at the highest levels, has consisted of mostly White men and women and...
Why I Support the #FeesMustFall Movement By Angelo Louw (NNPA Newswire Guest Contributor) “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the...
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, I can’t give you all the details, but let’s just say my boyfriend is doing something that...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. (NNPA Newswire Columnist) I was sitting at a Starbucks trying to mind my own business and right next to me two individuals...
By James Clingman (NNPA Newswire Columnist) In April 2005, I wrote an article titled, “Billion Dollar March,” at the behest of “The Ice Supreme Man” Ashiki...