By James Clingman NNPA News Wire Columnist Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “…we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects...
By Roger Caldwell NNPA News Wire Columnist There is no quick fix for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and no quick fix in the water...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist Three unarmed Black men encountered a group of White men walking down a dirt road in Slocum, Texas on...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist There is no debate concerning the irrefutable fact that The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist In progressive policy circles, and during the Democratic presidential debates, people are talking about income inequality. Though this phenomenon...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA News Wire Columnist Billions of dollars and thousands of jobs have passed us by due to the noncompliance of Section 3...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist Whenever we begin a new calendar year, it can be useful to make New Year’s Resolutions to...
By Alma Gill NNPA News Wire Columnist Dear Alma, I interviewed for a nursing position at a large hospital in my hometown. The job involves working...
By James Clingman NNPA News Wire Columnist Our seemingly endless conversations about what Black people “need to have” and “need to do” are nothing short of...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist Jannie Ligons is an Oklahoma City grandmother who left a friend’s house to drive home. She collided with Daniel...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist On the same day that President Barack Obama gave a stirring and historically grounded commemoration regarding the 150th anniversary...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist The Gospel is about “Good News” for all humanity. In particular the Black Church in America has...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA News Wire Columnist It has been two years since our President declared the ISIS movement a “JV” team. He implied this...
By James Clingman NNPA News Wire Columnist Gil Scott-Heron once asked: “Just how blind will America be? The world is on the edge of its seat;...
Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., says that climate change for African Americans is a matter of life and death. By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA News Wire...
By Alma Gill NNPA News Wire Advice Columnist Dear Alma, I found e-mails my wife has been writing to an old boyfriend who’s now in jail....