WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After making Silicon Valley’s boldest commitment to diversity, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich will headline Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project’s 18th annual convention...
Steve Peoples, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The faces of the Republican Party’s most ambitious members are changing. Long criticized as the party of old...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Sometimes childhood experiences motivate a lifetime of extraordinary work. That is certainly true for Georgetown University Law School professor...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Most pundits predicted gains for the Republican Party in the 2014 midterm elections but no one had an idea that...
SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — In the tense days after an unarmed black teen was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., Justin...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist I am always on the alert to make sure that Black Americans are treated fairly and justly. No, I...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The industry that bills itself a meritocracy actually looks more like a mirrortocracy.” — Mitch Kapor, co-chair of the Kapor Center...
LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Women and minorities are largely shut out of the ranks of TV series directors in a stubbornly...
(USA Today) SAN FRANCISCO — Civil rights activists are turning up pressure on Twitter to publicly release the gender and ethnic breakdown of its flock...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite the cry from people of color for more teachers who look like them, both Whites and...
Julie Snider, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today)– Facebook, the world’s most popular social network, released statistics on the makeup of its workforce that do...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (NNPA) – After working 37 years for General Motors, it is not unusual for Eric Peterson, vice president...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Last week, Google made the bold and necessary decision to release information about their employment diversity, detailing the race...
HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Three years ago, guest speaker Mindy Kaling joked that publishing’s annual national convention, BookExpo America, resembled “a...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Millennials are easy to spot. They’re the ones welded to their handheld devices, touting peculiar professional...
by Benjamin Todd Jealous Special to the NNPA from the North Dallas Gazette There is a missing component to the national discussion concerning how to...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Nearly 60 years after the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision declared that the...
By Stephanie Jones NNPA Columnist Much was made of what Mitt Romney said and didn’t say during his recent speech to the NAACP’s annual convention in...
