All posts tagged "Commentary"

Shirley Chisholm and the Fight for Equal Rights for All Women

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) With a woman heading the ticket of the Democratic Party, it may be challenging for us to remember that...

Can We Rebuild Black Wall Street?

By James Clingman (NNPA News Wire Columnist) “There are [Blacks] who are willing to worship the pyramids of 4,000 years ago, but will not build pyramids...

After the Justice Department’s Report, Where are the Calls for Baltimore’s Mayor to Resign?

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a scathing report on the state of the Baltimore City Police...

Did the NABJ and NAHJ Just Pimp Their Members Out to the Democrats?

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) When the leaves start falling, we know autumn is around the corner. When the snow begins to fall on...

This Is Why Black-Owned Newspapers Matter

By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (NNPA President and CEO) In 2017, we will celebrate 190th anniversary of the Black Press in America. Since the first...

Rev. Barber’s Speech at the DNC Was Everything

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) The North Carolina NAACP President, Rev. William Barber, tore it up and then threw down in a powerful speech...

Ask Alma: My Friend Stopped Hanging Out with Me. What Happened?

By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, A couple of months ago a real friendly woman moved into the condo across the hall. She...

Will Anything Really Change After the Deaths of Sterling, Gerald and Long?

By Candace J. Semien (The Drum, NNPA Member) Leaving the city of Baker, Louisiana, I turned left onto the interstate faster than I normally would. I...

A Tale of Two Conventions

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Having attended the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland two weeks ago and having intently watched the Democratic National...

Cleveland’s RNC Was the Whitest Convention I’ve Ever Attended

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) As I boarded my return flight to D.C. from last week’s Republican convention in Cleveland, Ohio, I began to...

We Must Have Intellectual Honesty about Race and Criminal Justice Reform

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (NNPA President and CEO) There is an old adage that posits “The more things appear to change, the more they stay...

Deconstructing Reconstruction in the Aftermath of Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights and Dallas

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...

Why Global Terrorism Will Always Be a Domestic Problem

By Roger Caldwell (NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist) President Obama underestimated the threat of ISIS, by calling the organization a “JV team” during his 2012 election...

Recent Police Shootings Show Our Nation’s Hypocrisy

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...

Hip-Hop Culture Is the Monster that the Black Community Created

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I am quite confident that what I am about to write will prove to be quite controversial, but I...

Blackonomics: The Difference Between Jesse Williams’ BET Speech and What Comes Next

Ask Alma: My Messy Co-Worker Has No Home Training

By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, I work in a small accounting office of 16 people. We sit in cubicles very close to...

Black and Latino Leaders Support Stronger Regulation of Payday and Car-Title Loans

By Charlene Crowell (NNPA News Wire Columnist) For more than a decade, civil rights organizations, labor, clergy, and consumer advocates have fought to end triple-digit interest...

Trump, Republican Party Confuse Outreach Efforts with Pandering

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) As long as the Republican Party continues to be dominated by the same ol’, same ol’ White male staffers,...

Congressman John Lewis Is One of a Kind

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I have always had enormous admiration for Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) and that admiration increased exponentially when I watched...

Saving Community Newspapers in the Age of Facebook

By Denise Rolark-Barnes (Chairperson of the NNPA) and Benjamin F. Chavis (President and CEO of the NNPA) Hundreds of newspapers have disappeared in the last 15...

“Where are the African American and Latina Mark Zuckerbergs and Sheryl Sandbergs?”

By Hill Harper (NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist) The question, which came from a participant in a minority business empowerment seminar, quieted the room. The answer...

The Murders in Orlando Had Nothing to Do with Homosexuality

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Everyone knows my position on the radical homosexual agenda being forced upon our country. I totally disagree with it....

Senator John McCain Foolishly Blames President Obama for the Massacre in Orlando

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) The cretin who took an assault weapon into Pulse, an Orlando nightclub, on “salsa night” is beneath contempt. Was...

Discover The Unexpected: NNPA Journalism Scholars Are Breaking News

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President of the NNPA) Today, we are exposed to 10-minute news segments six times per hour in a 24-hour news cycle...