By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Earlier this summer, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new regulations intended to reduce carbon emissions from America’s power...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist It reminds me of the classic Gone with the Wind. A young Scarlet O’Hara was standing in a field with her...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The idea hit me last week during the international panel at our 22nd annual conference in Chicago. Speaking on the...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist It appears nearly impossible for our nation to have an orderly and simple immigration program. It should be quite easy...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Our public school system is a wreck. It didn’t happen by circumstance. It is by design, a design to...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist There is probably no poverty pimp that is lower than a leech. This type of hustler wants to suck up...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist We first visited Cuba in 2000. There was so much to see that we visited twice that year (August and...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist On March 17, Obama administration took aim at career colleges and schools across the country with a new raft...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Presidential Program for the Development of the Afro-Colombian Population – that is the name of the program to empower...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Capital Access has become more elusive than ever. Why? Because of a kneejerk reaction in 2010 by Congress responding to...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) always had a shady purpose. Its origin lies with the presidency Richard M. Nixon, who...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist My time in Washington has given me a real primer on the phrase “flavor of the week.” This week, all...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Procter & Gamble enjoys a long, proud history as a major Cincinnati employer. Its history goes back more than 175...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Racial discrimination does exist in this world but certainly not at the level it did prior to the Civil Rights...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist History is full of great dreamers. The United States has certainly prospered from some of the greatest. Blacks can...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist There is a movement afoot to unionize college sports. The unionizing of sports would result in college athletes being...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist For the United States, World War II began after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Once again, another part of the world has been thrown into turmoil. This is happening more and more since...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I am writing this article from the beautiful shores of the Dominican Republic. We have assembled here for our second...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Oh, how I remember November 22, 1963. It was the day that ended America’s love affair. In November, 1960 we...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I was being interviewed by two French citizens whose mission is to end discrimination in France. Their mission is...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I have never seen so much venom, evil and dishonesty coming from a presidential administration as the one we...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist There has never been a political climate like this in modern times. We are now in an era of constant...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist There have been times in the 20-year history of the National Black Chamber of Commerce that we had to put...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Back in the good old days, probation was publicly funded. The process was simple and probation officers’ mission was to...