By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I was apprehensive when I learned that President Obama would give the commencement speech at Howard University this year....
By Jeffrey Boney (Houston Forward Times, NNPA Member) I have come a long way and have been through quite a bit on my journey here on...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Those who have followed my writings know that I have been and will continue to be very critical of...
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, My wife and I divorced after 38 years of marriage. I still don’t understand why, I want...
By James Clingman (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Veteran radio talk show host Carl Nelson, will present his third Power Talk event on June 17-19, 2016 at...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Malia Obama deserves congratulations. Admitted to Harvard University, she has decided to take a gap year, a mature choice...
By Harry C. Alford (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Perhaps one of the greatest entertainers of all time suddenly left us on April 21, 2016. Kay and...
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, We need advice. Recently our mom died and one of our sisters hasn’t spoken to us since....
CORRECTION: In an earlier version of this article, the columnist wrote that the White House Correspondents’ Association has “never had a Black journalist to head the...
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, My younger, non-married sister is pregnant and she is going to ruin our standing in the community....
By James Clingman (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Coalition-building is the best way for Black people to make the kind of progress we need to make in...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) When Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced that Harriet Tubman would grace the new $20 bill, my heart sang hallelujah....
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) The Sewall-Belmont House is located at the National Women’s Party in Washington D.C. It is one of the oldest...
By Alma Gill (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Dear Alma, I recently joined a new company that was formed through a merger. My boss ran our department...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) What do these four people all have in common: Wardell Stephen “Steph” Curry, II, better known as Steph Curry,...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) In order to have a fully functioning society, we must have some common baseline of beliefs that join us...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Every once in a while a congressional committee hearing can almost seem like a time to grab your popcorn...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I was thrilled to hear that there would be a hearing on Capitol Hill regarding the human rights...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) It is probably not especially politically correct to bring more race matters into the debacle that is also known...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA News Wire Columnist) When it comes to consumer concerns, debt collection remains the top complaint most often reported to the Consumer Financial...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) As I continue my swing through Eastern Europe, I had every intention of writing about my conversations with the...
By James Clingman (NNPA News Wire Columnist) While Black people are bogged down in shallow and meaningless political discourse, our vaunted Black organizations continue to be...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) I have repeatedly heard many of the talking heads in Washington, D.C. and the Republican establishment accuses Donald Trump...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Some words seem rarely mentioned in this highly toxic political season. We’ve heard about bombs and walls, but very...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA News Wire Columnist The more I listen to Donald Trump’s refrain about how dishonest the media is, the more I am beginning...