By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Last year, James Porter, the recently-elected president of the National Rifle Association, declared that President Obama was a “fake...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist The sequester is but a bump on the road to America’s real ruin. For those who don’t know, the U.S. is...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The congressional hearings on May 8 may become the beginning of the end for Hillary Rodham Clinton. Three credible...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist “Brighter days are ahead.” “The check is being put in the mail.” That is what the Republicans seem to be...
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 Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Sequestration is like the sand in an hour glass. When the sand starts falling, it does not seem to...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist As George Benson sang in Moody’s Mood, “There I go, there I go, there I go…” making up words again. ...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Two weeks ago, President Obama met with three African presidents—Koroma (Sierra Leone), Sall (Senegal), Banda (Malawi), and Prime Minister of...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist In American politics, many object to power flowing through blood rather than through the ballot. A “dynasty” is a sequence of...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist The top Black Republicans in the country recently joined Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as he honored “Black Republican...
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 James Clingman NNPA Columnist The push for the Black vote is on. Black folks are back in style. Black is beautiful – again. Since...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist How many African Americans know that the president of the United States (POTUS) recently met with their leaders? How many among...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I visited Cleveland a few years ago. As I was heading towards downtown I noticed a sign that showed...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist When I saw in the news that Vice President Biden had gone out of his way to assure the...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist “It is easily seen, that if every member of the race strove to make himself successful in business, he would contribute...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist It’s time to man up – I was wrong about Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. First, some background. I wrote a...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Again this year, African Americans placed higher priorities on participation in politics than the pursuit of capitalistic and business development...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” This famous quote from Frederick Douglass brings to...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I was recently in South Africa for a conference. While there, I had two interesting experiences that raised the complications...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist “Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more...
