(CBS News) – One year ago, after the death of Michael Brown and the overblown police response to largely peaceful demonstrations, lawmakers in Washington said they had...
(CBS News) – One year ago, the nation watched as the city of Ferguson, Mo., erupted. St. Louis police, dressed in riot gear, stood in a...
Bill Barrow, ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENVILLE, South Carolina (AP) — In her second bid for the presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton is discussing “systemic racism” and making...
By Samaria Bailey Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA – U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch pushed the NAACP to keep fighting for equality in...
“We find ourselves at crossroads in history” By Larry Miller Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA (NNPA) – NAACP president and CEO Cornell W....
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA)—Between the rise of digital media, changing social landscapes, and decreased funding, the nation’s 8,956 public library systems are at...
by C. Denise Johnson Special to the NNPA from the New Pittsburgh Courier Award winning novelist and essayist John Edgar Wideman was at Duquesne University for...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Black American leadership too often is taken for granted. Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation from office not...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist After being confirmed as the nation’s first African American U.S. attorney general, Eric H. Holder, Jr. wasted little time putting...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Columnist WASHINGTON (NNPA) – What do “Bring Back Our Girls,” “Justice for Trayvon” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” have in common?...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist This column is not about the recent story making headlines in New York City on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal...
By Carlton Brown Special to the NNPA from The Mississippi Link PERSPECTIVE “Our Negras are happy here in Mississippi. It’s the outside agitators causing the...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist By now, everyone knows the story of Los Angeles Clipper’s owner, Donald Sterling’s banishment from the National Basketball Association (NBA)...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The federal jobs reports for September issued last week showed the year’s slow – and therefore, disappointing – rate of...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The enduring hope is that race should not matter; the reality is that too often it does.” – Anthony Kennedy,...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Within a matter of days late last month, four controversies erupted that acutely underscore the crux of Black Americans continuing...
