By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Writing has been a catharsis for me since my “angry days” in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. I used...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Ever since President Bill Clinton apologized for the Tuskegee syphilis “experiment” in 1997, we have heard calls for apologies from...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The protest slogans addressing our latest struggle for justice and equity compel me to come up with a new...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist During the 50-year period from 1963 (“I have a dream!”) to 2013, Black people have been on a virtual...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist While recalling those commercials, featuring Andre Agassi (pro tennis player) saying, “Image is everything” and Billy Crystal’s “Saturday Night...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist There comes a time in the course of human events for persons who have been mistreated to dissolve the political...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist How many times, especially during or just after a tragedy like the killing of Eric Garner, have you heard one...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The dominance of social media and our never-ending thirst for faster ways to communicate have relegated many of our people...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Exactly what is there in 1 million Black folks united in their will and purpose? What is in a million...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Whoever loves money never has enough.” – Ecclesiastes 5:10 I would offer that verse from the wisest man in history to...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist What now? What a raucous, topsy-turvy, heart-wrenching, angry year we experienced in 2014. We had everything from the sadness of...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Tennessee Williams said, “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that is also a hypocrite.” I could...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist As the end of another tumultuous year approaches, Black people again find ourselves in the relative same economic and political...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist After the “Tuesday Evening Massacre” of the Elephants over the Donkeys, in January 2009, I wrote an article that warned about...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Black folks lead the nation in church-going, praise-dancing, shouting, call-and-response, and “whoopin.” We like to “get our church on” and feel...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The Black vote is said to be the determining factor in whether the Democrats hold the U.S. Senate. President Obama is...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist We say we have “voting power,” but we have settled merely for the “power to vote.” We fight for the “right...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Remember the old movies where the outlaws robbed banks for a living, or the gangsters did “bank jobs” as they moved...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist I know you political junkies are on the edge of your seats now that Dr. Ben Carson has said he...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand, it never did and never will.” I often wonder what Black people...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Over the past few decades Black people have been led to believe that we have “power” because we earn and spend...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Here’s an intriguing concept: Arrest the Black dollar. Say what, Jim? You read it correctly. We should arrest our dollars...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In a previous article, I noted the ridiculous scenario of Black people protesting while others profited, how we travel across the...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Black life, for the most part, has become a myriad of frustration, doubt, hopelessness, desperation, despair, struggle, and fear. We fear...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Remember the Jena Six? Some 15,000 to 20,000 protesters went to Jena, La. in 2006 to demonstrate against injustice. After...
