By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “’I’m learning that milestones are a very difficult thing to get through in this first year . . ....
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 Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Despite working a full-time job, many low-wage workers still live in poverty. This isn’t right.” – Rep. George Miller...
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 Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Speaking to the newly-minted graduates of Atlanta’s historically Black and all-male Morehouse College May 19, President Obama urged them...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist These are very wild times here in Washington, D.C. We are four big scandals going on that could threaten...
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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 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 Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist For someone who seems to revel in being silent during the Supreme Court’s traditionally lively oral arguments – when...
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 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...
Marc Morial NNPA Columnist “Our nation is moving towards two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal.” – 1967 Kerner Commission In 1963, more...
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 Ron Daniels NNPA Guest Columnist On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stepped to the podium of the Riverside Church in New...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Why is the National Rifle Association so afraid of the truth? There are many misconceptions about guns and gun...
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...
