By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I was apprehensive when I learned that President Obama would give the commencement speech at Howard University this year....
By Jeffrey Boney (Houston Forward Times, NNPA Member) I have come a long way and have been through quite a bit on my journey here on...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Those who have followed my writings know that I have been and will continue to be very critical of...
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, My wife and I divorced after 38 years of marriage. I still don’t understand why, I want...
By James Clingman (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Veteran radio talk show host Carl Nelson, will present his third Power Talk event on June 17-19, 2016 at...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Malia Obama deserves congratulations. Admitted to Harvard University, she has decided to take a gap year, a mature choice...
By Walter Rhett (NNPA News Wire Contributor) President Obama said in his recent remarks that Harriet Tubman would likely greet the news she was on the...
By Harry C. Alford (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Perhaps one of the greatest entertainers of all time suddenly left us on April 21, 2016. Kay and...
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, We need advice. Recently our mom died and one of our sisters hasn’t spoken to us since....
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...
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article, the columnist wrote that the White House Correspondents’ Association has “never had a Black journalist to head the...
By Dr. Patricia Maryland (NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist) One hundred one years ago, Booker T. Washington penned a letter to the editors of America’s leading...
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, My younger, non-married sister is pregnant and she is going to ruin our standing in the community....
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) When Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced that Harriet Tubman would grace the new $20 bill, my heart sang hallelujah....
By Marian Wright Edelman (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Every day I wear a pair of medallions around my neck with portraits of two of my role...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) The Sewall-Belmont House is located at the National Women’s Party in Washington D.C. It is one of the oldest...
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, I recently joined a new company that was formed through a merger. My boss ran our department...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) What do these four people all have in common: Wardell Stephen “Steph” Curry, II, better known as Steph Curry,...
By Cornell William Brooks (President and CEO of the NAACP) When we think about the right to vote, it is and should be understood to be...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I was thrilled to hear that there would be a hearing on Capitol Hill regarding the human rights...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) It is probably not especially politically correct to bring more race matters into the debacle that is also known...
By Dr. Patricia Maryland (NNPA News Wire Guest Columnist) Our nation continues to marshal support for the people of Flint, Michigan, as the city rebuilds after...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA News Wire Columnist The more I listen to Donald Trump’s refrain about how dishonest the media is, the more I am beginning...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA News Wire Columnist Oh yes, those were troubled times during the decades of the 1960’s and 1970’s. When Beyoncé gave tribute...
