By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) On Saturday, September 10, I had the pleasure of being one of the featured speakers for the inaugural Liberty Farm...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA Newswire Columnist) The fight for fair lending got a big boost on August 31 when a federal court rejected a payday loan...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Are you ready to vote? Are you registered? These may seem like simplistic questions, especially for those who are aware,...
By Armstrong Williams (NNPA Newswire Columnist) As if to compound the insult to American power represented by the world’s vociferous rejection of the Bush doctrine, the...
By Alma Gill (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Dear Alma, My parents divorced when I was nine. It was cool, because I spent a lot of time with...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) I am really getting fed up with the constant drumbeat of criticism of Donald Trump’s campaign, especially the criticism coming...
By Benjamin Chavis (President and CEO of the NNPA) The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) proudly asserts that, “We are the authentic voice of Black America.”...
[TNTRIBUNE.COM/NNPA MEMBER] I don’t like name calling and disparaging anyone’s character not, and it’s not because I am a man of God. I say this because...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) The most recent data on minority-owned firms in the United States was collected in 2012 (and released at the end...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) On Saturday, August 20, I was at my mother’s house in Virginia when I received a text message, late...
By Alma Gill (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Dear Alma, I’ve been friends with a woman for over 10 years. We went to high school together. I left...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO of the NNPA) The freedom struggle and Civil Rights Movement of Black people in America and throughout the...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Imagine the Chicago Bulls of the NBA during the early Michael Jordan years. He was their top draft pick...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. (NNPA Newswire Columnist) There is something that I have found particularly odd in this election season and there have been many things...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA News Wire Columnist) News – we read it, talk about it, even complain about it from time to time. But if you...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Our American exceptionalism allows us to shimmer, too fully in our greatness. We are the biggest and the baddest. We...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA Newswire Columnist) If Black Republicans ever want to be taken seriously by the Black community, they have to stop accepting the silly...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Any member of an organization that truly cares about the group will not hesitate to hold the leadership accountable...
By Charlene Crowell (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Although many American families have modest financial means, there is nothing small about their hopes. Owning a home has...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO of the NNPA) The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) salutes the first class of the Discover the Unexpected...
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA News Wire Columnist) With a woman heading the ticket of the Democratic Party, it may be challenging for us to remember that...
By James Clingman (NNPA News Wire Columnist) “There are [Blacks] who are willing to worship the pyramids of 4,000 years ago, but will not build pyramids...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a scathing report on the state of the Baltimore City Police...
By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) When the leaves start falling, we know autumn is around the corner. When the snow begins to fall on...
[THEROOT.COM] There are a few people I would wait an entire day to see onstage. Chris Rock, if he were doing a live set with new...
