By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been floating at or above the 17,000 mark in the past two months – an...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Between early August and late September, students are going back to school. Before they go to school, though, they and their...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Except for the Good Lord, everybody has someone or something to “check” him or her. Unfortunately, President Obama has an...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist It doesn’t matter if you are state legislator or an alderman, a journalist or a local leader. If you are...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I don’t do vacations well. I have to be pushed and prodded, just about guilt-tripped, into taking time off. Sure, I’ll...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Last quarter’s rate of economic growth is good news, especially after the economy stalled, losing momentum in the first quarter of...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist What if we didn’t incarcerate people who commit non-violent crimes? Or, if we sentenced them, what if their sentences were...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The South African charity Feed a Child chose to highlight child poverty in South Africa by portraying a little Black boy...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist It’s mid-July. Do you know if your children are learning? Just a month ago they were eager to leave the regimentation...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist President Obama would like the national minimum wage to rise to $10.10 an hour. By executive order, he has already raised...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Judging from its June 18-19 meeting, the Federal Reserve is hedging its bets. It says the U.S. economy is on...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – More than 1,000 women of color – including Mary Frances Berry, former chair of the U.S. Commission...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When the Koch Foundation gave the United Negro College Fund $25 million, it set off a maelstrom of comments in...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist As young people graduate from high school, or finish the school year as sophomores and juniors, they begin to search...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Many people will remember Maya Angelou for her phenomenal career. She was a true renaissance woman – an author, teacher, dancer, performer, radio...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The last Monday in May, Memorial Day, was designed to honor those who died in service to our country. It is...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Because I was a horribly ill-behaved child, I found myself shipped from San Francisco to Moss Point, Miss. in August...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Long after completing his 8-year presidency, William Jefferson Clinton acknowledged that he should have intervened in the conflict in Rwanda. Hundreds...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Long after completing his 8-year presidency, William Jefferson Clinton acknowledged that he should have intervened in the conflict in Rwanda....
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist During 2013, the U.S. economy experienced a reasonable level of growth. The 3.4 percent growth rate in the second half...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The Roberts Supreme Court decided last week that voters in the state of Michigan had the right to ban affirmative action...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I’m tired, my sisterfriend says. I don’t know how much longer I can hold on. As I hear her...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When John and Ann started working on January 1, 2013, John had an immediate advantage. Because women earn 77 cents...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist If you missed the news about the disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370 over the Indian Ocean, you must have been...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist In a world that is dominated by men, especially White men, feminism is, for me, an empowering concept. It is a...
