PORTLAND, Oregon (NNPA) – Former San Francisco mayor and Democratic powerbroker Willie Brown received the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) prestigious Legacy Award last week...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief PORTLAND, Oregon (NNPA) – The St. Louis American has won the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s Russwurm/Senstacke Trophy for general excellence for the...
PORTLAND, OREGON – (NNPA) – Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. a global business leader, educator, and longtime civil rights activist, was elected interim president and CEO of...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department and the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund have reached an agreement with the four major...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Hooray! The Associated Press reported that America’s Blacks voted at a higher rate than Whites in 2012 for the first...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The term “payday loans” often evokes images of stores with garish neon signs; but these products have moved into the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I read the speech. I read it carefully. Again, an excellent speech; as a result, you have to read...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Do you still believe what U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice was saying during her infamous five Sunday show appearances? By now,...
Dear Gwendolyn: A year ago I met and started dating a good looking man. Girl, he was drop dead gorgeous. We met at a cookout...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Ka’Nard Allen has been shot twice in his 10-year-old life. On May 12, he went with his mother to...
By Cheryl Pearson-McNeil NNPA Columnist Remember back-in-the-day when you used to poke your mouth out, bug your parents (or whatever adult was in charge) about...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Too often, our politics aren’t focused on the same things you are. Working hard. Supporting your family and your community....
American Idol Candice Glover was crowned the new “American Idol” on Thursday after defeating country singer Kree Harrison. The 23-year-old R&B vocalist from St. Helena Island,...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist It will strike many of you as counter-intuitive, but there has been a rising phenomenon of unemployed workers suffering...
By Dave Steward NNPA Guest Columnist Winston Churchill once said, “to every man there comes a time in his life when he is figuratively tapped...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Some people say “common sense is not common,” which may be the main reason Black people are not as far...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “The findings represent a tipping point for blacks, who for much of American history were disenfranchised and then effectively barred from...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist When some of us saw the first video of Charles Ramsey, the colorful Black dishwasher in Cleveland who is...
1969 grad to lead school’s marching and pep bands in wake of drum major’s hazing death. (Photo: Karl Etters, The Tallahassee Democrat) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida...
[Reuters] The attorney for Michael Jackson’s estate on Wednesday described as “outrageous and pathetic” a fresh claim of child molestation against the dead pop star, made...
[HNGN] Producer Lee Daniels is back with another film sure to rack up Oscar nominations. Daniels, best known for “Precious” and “The Paper Boy” has produced...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Suppose one of the key committees in Congress scheduled a hearing on one of the country’s most debilitating economic...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Earlier this year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) asked for public comments on private student loan debt affordability. By...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist One of the worst ironies of the nagging economic recession is that consumers with the fewest financial resources have lost...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist There are some painful things from my childhood in segregated Tuscaloosa, Ala., that I will never forget. At the...
