All posts tagged "Commentary"

Blackonomics: Muhammad Ali Will Inspire Me Until the Day I Die

Five Things that The Republican Party Gets Totally Wrong about Race

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) While there is no denying that Donald Trump has had a terrible past couple of weeks with his dogged...

Go Sweetly, Muhammad Ali

By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson With the passing of the larger than life sports personality, Muhammad Ali, the world has lost more than a great boxing...

Dear White People: Muhammad Ali Did Not Transcend Race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtxfteyjzg4

We Need Literacy Warriors like Kizzy in the Black Community Today

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dictionary defines warriors as “a person who fights in battle and is known for having courage and skill.” In...

Why We Must Never Forget Our Roots

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...

This Is Why Snoop Lion Should Write, Direct and Produce Black Movies

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Last week rapper Snoop Dogg put up an epic video rant on his Instagram. In the verbiage that only...

Young Black Scholars “Discover the Unexpected” on the Journey to Empowerment

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President of the National Newspaper Publishers Association) The legendary scholar, writer and visionary James Baldwin once personally confided with me that...

Making History is Sometimes About Timing

Ask Alma: My Friend Invites Her Mother Everywhere We Go

By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, My friend of over 15 years recently made the decision it was time for her and her...

Killing Dylann Roof Won’t Kill White Supremacy

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dylann Roof, the unrepentant racist who killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. is,...

America’s Crumbling Infrastructure Is a Clear and Present Danger

By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. (Founder and President of Rainbow PUSH Coalition) America is literally falling apart. In Flint, Mich., children were poisoned by the lead...

Cop Killings Bear Strange Fruit for the Families of Black Victims

By Jeffrey L. Boney (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I’m about to be extremely facetious! We’re Black, right? We all like a “hook-up” on something every now...

To Be Equal: 5 Things You Need to Know about Vernon Jordan, the “Rosa Parks of Wall Street”

By Marc Morial (President and CEO of the National Urban League) “Don’t just give us money, and don’t just show up for the Equal Opportunity Day...

Veterans Choice Program: Helping Our Troops Access the Care They Deserve

By Dr. Patricia Maryland (NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist) Since 1999, May has been designated as National Military Appreciation Month, an opportunity for Americans to show...

My boyfriend insisted a gun would keep us “safer” up until the day he shot me in the face

[QZ.COM] I met Kenny in June of 2009. I was 22 and he was 34. I am a blues singer—he’d seen me at one of the...

Liberals Fumble the Ball When It Comes to the Redskins

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I constantly tell my readers to always remember the key tenant of liberalism is “intent, not result.” To a...

Bernie and Donald Are Two Sides of Same Angry, White Coin

By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) For all their dueling ideologies, Senator Bernie Sanders and “presumptive Republican nominee” Donald Trump are two sides of the...

How to Get Over Your Inane Fear of Taking a Dump Next to Transgender People

[VERYSMARTBROTHAS.COM] When I went to my office bathroom this past Sunday, I encountered something terrifying that led me to run out shortly after I entered. I...

I Saw These “Stunning” News Anchors and My Jaw Didn’t Drop

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. (NNPA News Wire Columnist) If you are like me, you sometimes find yourself surfing the Web when you are supposed to be...

It’s Time for Blacks to Diversify their Voting Portfolios

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Blacks gave Obama 96 percent of their votes in 2008 and 94 percent of their votes in 2012. We,...

Ask Carla: Is My Ringback Tone Hurting My Job Search?

By Carla Lane (Houston Forward Times, NNPA Member) Dear Carla, I am currently in the market for a new job. I haven’t had much luck in...

Blackonomics: The Black Community is Bleeding to Death

By James Clingman (NNPA News Wire Columnist) There is a crisis of monumental proportion in our so-called “Black communities.” A crisis that if not checked will...

Google Bans Payday and Other Predatory Loan Ads

By Charlene Crowell (NNPA News Wire Columnist) For more than a decade, broad-based coalitions at both the state and federal levels have united consumer advocates, labor,...