NNPA NEWSWIRE — Tucker has been in and around Hollywood since college (UCLA). A chance meeting at a barbeque produced the opportunity to co-write a script...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist After three days of peaceful demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s fatal shooting in Ferguson, Mo.,...
By Jesse Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The news this weekend that Julian Bond passed away at 75 saddened me deeply. America has lost a true...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist On August 6, the Voting Rights Act, keystone of the civil rights movement, will mark its 50th anniversary. This...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist “That’s what strikes me. There for the grace of God.” That was President Obama’s reaction when he became the...
By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The confederate flag finally came down in Charleston, S.C. The flag celebrated the sedition, slavery and succession...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The presidency is a bit like a baseball season. Players go through streaks and slumps, good days and...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist “It is time to move the flag from the capitol grounds.” With those words, South Carolina Gov. Nikki...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Last month at the graduation ceremony of Tuskegee University, a historically Black college in Alabama, first lady Michelle...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Now it is Baltimore. There Freddie Gray, a Black man, was stopped on the street, pinned to the...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist President Obama marked the 50th anniversary of Selma by celebrating the ordinary heroes who sacrificed so much to...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist By doubling down on his vile slur on President Obama’s love for his country, ex-New York City Mayor...
By Jesse L. Jackson NNPA Columnist In November, Illinois voters narrowly decided – after one of the most expensive gubernatorial elections in the nation’s history –...
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...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive and dreaming today, his ‘I Have a Dream’...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Ferguson is too important to be treated on the margins. It is too important to lead the news one...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist I know about Black American leadership from both a personal and a professional perspective that spans more than five...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa is a global health emergency. Countries around the world...
By Jesse L. Jackson NNPA Columnist Politicians seeking political advantage blame the Central American children crisis on President Obama. They demand that the border be...
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...
By Jesse L Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist The Bible’s injunction that we shall be judged by how we have treated the “least of these” (Mathew 25:40)...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist “It cannot be said that the employed scholarship players are ‘primarily students.’” With that statement, a regional director...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist This week, I wanted to focus my column once more on the issue of voting. After 246 years...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The recent Wall Street Project conference in New York City was old home week for many of us who...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist America’s gun culture costs lives and feeds our fears. Consider the most recent injustice in Florida, the verdict...
