By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist During his State of the Union address, President Obama promised to use the power of his pen to achieve the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Do you know about Elizabeth Keckley? Maggie Lena Walker, Sarann Knight Preddy, Gertrude Pocte Geddes-Willis, Trish Millines Dziko, Addie L...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama announced a “My Brother’s Keeper,” an initiative to help young Black and Brown men succeed. Many present...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist In the years after enslavement, Southern Whites did all they could to return to a manner of slavery. No White...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is at it again. Whenever he opens his mouth about race, he displays a surprising...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Had he not massacred Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman would be an average White man holding down a mediocre job, living...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist In President Barack Obama’s State of the Union (SOU) address, he appealed to our nation’s employers to raise wages from...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Mid-January is the time when Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday is commemorated. Cities, towns, and colleges across the country lift...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates isn’t the first political appointee to analyze the work of an administration he served, even...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared a war on poverty. Appalled by the way too many Americans lived,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Brother A. Peter Bailey wrote a very enlightening article, titled, “Black Leaders, Past and Present, Speak on the Need for...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Happy New Year! January first and second are the days when most think of the “new” year, yet with the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist There are two ways to end a recession. One is to increase federal spending on the theory that people will...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Former Kansas Senator and 1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole was recently presented with an award that is named after...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist If I close my eyes, I can remember 1984. I am among those running from meeting to meeting working...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Theoretically, Thanksgiving celebrates the breaking of bread between Native Americans and Pilgrims, who might have starved where it not for the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist For the past year, an organization called OUR Walmart, has protested, raised questions and asked their employer, one of the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist All Renisha McBride wanted to do was to go home. She had been in a car accident, her cell phone was...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Voter suppression is alive and well, especially in the state of North Carolina, where a Republican official, Don Yelton, proved himself...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The brilliant surgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson is out of order and out of control when he compares the Affordable Care Act...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist You don’t have to be from Detroit to be angry at what is happening there. And you don’t have to be from...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist At press time, it was unclear whether Congress would finally evade a government shutdown on October 1. I do know, however, that...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist When the poverty data was released on September 17, comparing the poverty situation in 2011 to that in 2012, many hoped that...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Steven and Laurie, a White married couple that lives near Richmond, Va., work at a big box store. She is...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Obama’s proposal to make colleges more affordable has some good points, but could disproportionately harm Historically...
