By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The wealth gap between African Americans and Whites has expanded in recent years and is not likely...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community…Our ambitions must be broad enough...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist There are some Americans who, in the aggregate, are consistently doing worse in our society — groups that have...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “You can’t allow 15,000 school boards to home bake their own little standards subject to their own political pressures and...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “There is no more powerful force than a people steeped in their history. And there is no higher cause...
By Marc H. Morial NBPA Columnist “Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle.” Amiri Baraka On January 9, with the passing...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “A routine school disciplinary infraction should land a student in the principal’s office, not in a police precinct.” Eric Holder,...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Blacks account for more new HIV infections, people estimated to be living with HIV disease, and HIV-related deaths than any...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “For the first time in history, Republicans have routinely used the filibuster to prevent President Obama from appointing his executive...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Every parent wants their child to achieve, thrive and succeed. Too often though, negative perceptions of children of color and...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Under unrelenting attacks –including from Democratic supporters – President Obama and White House officials continue to struggle...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The Federal Reserve Chairman is not only one of the most important economic policymakers in America, he or she is...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist The question of equality was a catalyst for the creation of this great Republic. The need for new ideas and...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “Almost 50 years ago, I gave a little blood on that bridge in Selma, Alabama for the right to vote. I...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The hour is late. The gap is widening. The rumbles of the drums of discontent resounding throughout this land are...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “The Court’s disregard for the realities of the workplace means that many victims of workplace harassment will have no effective remedy.” ...
To Be Equal By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.” — President Barack Obama In the weeks since the...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “As of 2004, more black men were denied the right to vote because of a criminal record than in 1870,...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “I’m the sole surviving member of my immediate family. I’ve asked myself over and over again why. I now know why.” Cicely...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “I believe that’s Trayvon Martin, that’s my baby’s voice. Every mother knows their child, and that’s his voice.” – Sybrina Fulton, mother...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The enduring hope is that race should not matter; the reality is that too often it does.” – Anthony Kennedy,...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Raise your eyes now, and look from the place where you are…for all the land that you see I...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist Recently, 400,000 poor and underserved Louisianans, many them people of color, were shut out of potentially life-saving health insurance...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “No more hurting people. Peace.” – Eight-year-old Martin Richard, a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing Acts of terror like...
