MEMPHIS (Politico) — On one side of South Lauderdale Ave. sits the Foote Homes, among the last of the old federal housing projects that once proliferated...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Ronald Reagan quipped: “In the 60s we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won.” Did...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As fast food and retail workers continue to march for higher wages, a new study by the...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite the disproportionate impact of poverty found in African American communities, only one of President Barack...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Some children cheer when schools close for winter storms, but there are hungry children in America right now for...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States is still not a fair...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared a war on poverty. Appalled by the way too many Americans lived,...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the American economy stumbles through an uneven economic recovery, Black children continue to suffer record...
by Rev. Franklin Fortier Special to the NNPA from the Greene County Democrat The Selma Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is protesting the Legal...
[REUTERS] The percentage of Americans living in poverty remained steady last year at 15 percent after rising for several years in the wake of the recession,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Selma, Ala., the county seat of Dallas County, was a bastion of White supremacy in 1965. At the time,...
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 Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist “Oh, what wicked webs they weave.” The Affordable Care Act, a/k/a Obamacare, is starting to raise its ugly head. ...
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 James Clingman NNPA Columnist Newark, New Jersey Mayor, Corey Booker, following the example of Phoenix, Arizona Mayor, Greg Stanton, is accepting a challenge to...
