By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Alright team, here we are again approaching the midterm elections. Having won both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, we...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama served notice in his State of the Union speech that he intends to make 2014...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With a largely uncooperative, highly-partisan Congress headed into a mid-term election, President Obama declared in his State...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although the shutdown of the federal government that began Tuesday is affecting all Americans, a disproportionate portion...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week, Americans commemorated the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on 9/11/2001. During this crisis, Americans become...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Although the overall unemployment rate still exceeds 7 percent, and the official Black unemployment rate is greater than 13 percent,...
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 Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Like too many events since the beginning of the Obama presidency, various attacks on the administration by the Republicans...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The Obama administration deserves to be richly criticized for surreptitiously obtaining the telephone records of reporters for the Associated...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Over the past few weeks, President Obama has made comments that seemed to signal his support for expanding LNG...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist President Obama recently nominated Melvin (Mel) Watt, a long-time North Carolina Congressman, to direct the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)....
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Anyone despairing that Congress can’t get anything done should note last week’s swift vote to get furloughed air traffic...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The Obama administration is preparing for an expansion of U.S. military involvement into areas from which it should keep...
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 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...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist When President Obama was first elected, in 2008, much of the world waited to see what sort of changes...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Once again the Black community has been shown how irrelevant they have become in the U.S. Most of the blame...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist There has been much discussion about the big picture items in President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal 2014. If...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The right wing seems determined to associate President Obama with any government program that helps people on the bottom. Thus, the...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Yes indeed and it is documented that the growth of natural gas production is creating jobs, expanding manufacturing at...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I never considered the late Rodney King anything of a philosopher, but as one observes Washington shenanigans, especially around fiscal...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Our minds fasten on that single moment on the bus — Mrs. Parks alone in that seat, clutching her...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist March is the official month to “discuss” women and it could not arrive too soon. What is sad about both...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.” – Slain Civil Rights leader, Medgar Evers When President...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Four years ago, President Obama made history by becoming the first Black president in the history of the U.S. I...
