By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Those who’ve found it difficult to connect with the racial history of post-Civil War America – when Black Americans were...
DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans took the initial step on Thursday to sue President Barack Obama over the administration’s decision to delay...
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Politically, the nation is less a sharply divided collection of red and blue states, and more a rainbow...
(USA Today) – Party-switching ex-congressman Artur Davis is considering a return to his native Alabama and a campaign for mayor of Montgomery. In an interview with Gannett’s...
(The Washington Post) – President Obama’s displeasure with gridlock in Washington — and with the Republicans he blames for it — has been rising for...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA ColumnistLast week, African-American voters in Mississippi proved Blacks will vote for a Republican candidate – when doing so meets the time-honored...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist If you ever doubted that conservatives were sore losers, the recent Senate election in Mississippi should remove all doubt. After...
(The Washington Post) – The recent primary loss by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor set off a barrage of political analysis that concluded that any...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In the context of the current crisis in Iraq, I have been astounded by Republican suggesting that Obama is...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist June’s three most striking domestic political events thus far all have in common the same force that has uniformly characterized...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week’s defeat of House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor sent shock waves throughout D.C. like I have never seen before. ...
ASHLAND, Va. (Politico) — From the moment polls opened Tuesday, it could not have been clearer that Eric Cantor gave no mind to the idea...
(Politico) – Suddenly, the 2016 Republican field has a new reason to worry about immigration reform: saying anything at all can be hazardous to your presidential...
JENNIFER AGIESTA, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Political polarization in America has broken out of the voting booth. A new survey from the Pew Research Center...
(POLITICO) – The dream of a Jewish Republican speaker of the House is no more. With House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s startling ouster in a primary...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist One of the best kept secrets over the past 50 years is that, proportionately, Republicans in Congress supported passage of the...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Major League Baseball’s home run king, Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron has just knocked another one out of the park. ...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Last week the U.S. Supreme Court added another layer of bricks to the wall conservatives are trying to build to...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Two weeks ago, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) set off a firestorm of controversy by saying on the syndicated radio talk show...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The Kenyan Proverb, “When elephants fight, the grass suffers,” is apropos to us, the grassroots. Only in our case, we are...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Many conservatives who actively opposed Nelson Mandela’s protracted struggle to establish democracy in White minority-ruled South Africa are trying to...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Some of the responses by the Republicans and their friends to the Iran nuclear deal have been nothing short...
By William Reed NNPA Columnist Rather than gloat over the Republicans getting their clocks cleaned in the government shutdown fiasco, it’s worth Blacks taking time to...
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...
[ABC NEWS] Under relentless pressure from their right wing, Republicans are in the midst of a risky fight with President Barack Obama they know they will...