By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama has been catching hell from all sides lately because of his refusal to utter the words...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist What recently happened in Paris was more than a typical act of Islamic terrorism. No, this was the latest...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I will be 67 years old next month. For nearly half of those years my wife, Kay, and I...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist People must wonder why the United States has been so hard on Cuba for the past 55 years. The...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist With all of his arrogance and bravado, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has really gotten his nation into a serious conundrum....
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Tourism is a very important part to any nation’s economy. A nation that does not have a tourism structure...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist How did we let it get so out of hand? The number of people we have incarcerated in this...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist We recently lost Marion Barry, an American icon who changed this nation in ways most don’t understand. I remember coming...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist It has been told by many in the press that President Obama is a former professor who taught constitutional law...
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...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The mid-term national election will go down as the biggest landslide since 1928. The Democratic Party suffered a full fledge...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Last week I wrote about the shocking story of how our Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) willfully brought crack cocaine into...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist There have been incidents along our nation’s path that are outright disgusting and with racial animus. The internment of...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The Environmental Protection Agency was once a small operation working out of the Department of Interior. President Richard Nixon elevated...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The Environmental Protection Agency was once a small operation working out of the Department of Interior. President Richard Nixon elevated...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The Congressional Black Caucus in its short history has basically been a bastion of progressive or liberal thinkers. Of the...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Minority business programs came to life as a compliance requirement for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Congress recently returned to Washington from its month-long August recess with a short, but vital to-do list for the two-week...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Planning for retirement requires strong discipline, flexibility and constant awareness. Most African Americans do little thinking about it. Those who...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I have seen too many families break up following the unforeseen death of a loved one. It is especially...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist If I didn’t see it with my own eyes I never would have believed it. Here was President Barack Obama...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I am writing this article from the beautiful nation of Costa Rica (Rich Coast in English). It is our mission...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I have often wondered about the zest and ambition of environmental groups such as the Sierra Club, Green Peace,...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The Obama administration has a flawed theory: Use diplomacy to keep the peace; it is better relations with other...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Finally, President Obama extended an invitation to African nations to participate in a Summit. It was rather short but...
