By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist I was on “Washington Watch with Roland Martin” last week. This is a weekly TV show that deals with Black...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The United States Senate’s failure to pass common sense gun safety measures – the Manchin-Toomey Amendment to expand background...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist At first I wondered why I felt so powerful a sense of déjà vu last week when the Senate...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Do you have anything to say about what’s going on in town, or across America? What are your personal priorities...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Earlier this year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) asked for public comments on private student loan debt affordability. By...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Are you a Zero-TV household? No, I don’t mean restricting the kids’ TV viewing to the weekends or until after...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist One of the worst ironies of the nagging economic recession is that consumers with the fewest financial resources have lost...
By Ron Daniels NNPA Guest Columnist On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stepped to the podium of the Riverside Church in New...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist The top Black Republicans in the country recently joined Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as he honored “Black Republican...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist As I have been looking at the phenomenon of street gangs in urban areas of our nation, there...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I never considered the late Rodney King anything of a philosopher, but as one observes Washington shenanigans, especially around fiscal...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “My friends are dead. I saw the bad man. He was next to me when we ran out.” “I played...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.” Sheryl Sandberg In a...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist As a result of Ohio’s Republican Senator Rob Portman’s declaration last week that he now supports homosexual marriage, I am...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “It will not be sufficient for Morehouse College, for any college, for that matter, to produce clever graduates, men...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist This is the beginning of a series of articles about street gangs in our nation. Gone are the days...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When unemployment numbers were released on Friday, commentators reacted joyfully. Alan Krueger, who heads the White House Council of Economic...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist In the midst of the Academy Awards drama on Sunday, February 24, one of the Onion’s writers (we don’t know...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Legal Shield was first known as PrePaid Legal and that is where this story begins. This...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Why do Black Americans allow the war on drugs’ unfair toll on people of color to continue? Instead of putting a stop...
