By Raynard Jackson NNPA News Wire Columnist Another election cycle, another year of Blacks being sold out by their media-appointed leadership. Why am I the only...
By James Clingman NNPA News Wire Columnist The “Silly Season,” as many call it, is well under way; and Black people are up to our necks...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist There are many peculiar things about the 2016 election cycle, but one of them is what is not...
By Armstrong Williams NNPA News Wire Columnist Dr. Ben Carson’s last place finish in the South Carolina Republican primary (he earned 7.2 percent of the total...
By James Clingman NNPA News Wire Columnist One thing is for sure; Black folks are enjoying this latest political mating dance with Bernie Sanders and Hillary...
By Freddie Allen (NNPA News Wire Managing Editor) A few days before presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton racked up a huge win in Nevada’s Democratic primary, largely...
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer While Sen. Bernie Sanders was in New York City dining with the Rev. Al Sharpton and courting...
[POLITICO] The Congressional Black Caucus PAC announced that they will endorse Hillary Clinton. It’s a coup for the Democratic presidential contender, as many of the black...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush thinks he can become president of the United States if Republicans can double their...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The emergence of the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has reached the scale of “phenomenal.” What many...
Kyle Cheney, POLITICO (Politico) – Vice President Joe Biden’s last-minute decision to score some facetime with powerful black leaders may do little to shake their...
Perry Bacon Jr. and Alex Seitz-Wald WASHINGTON (NBC News) – The African-American vote, usually an afterthought until after the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries, is...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist As we enter the 2016 political campaign season with numerous candidates for president of the United States in...
Sophia Tesfaye, SALON WASHINGTON (Salon) — In an effort to court African-American support for his presidential campaign, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders held a meeting...
Theodore R. Johnson, THE ATLANTIC (The Atlantic) — In 1988, the late Ed Brown, then-executive director of the Voter Education Project, watched as the...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “I’ll see your two Blacks and raise you two more.” The vast majority of the news is centered on politics,...
Robert Draper, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE WASHINGTON (The New York Times Magazine) — Last Friday, during a speech before a virtually all-black audience at...
Sergio Bustos and Kelli Kennedy, ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush went into historically Democratic territory Friday to tell...
John Wagner, THE WASHINGTON POST NEW ORLEANS (The Washington Post) — Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders made his first major outreach to the African American community this...
Niall Stanage, THE HILL WASHINGTON (The Hill) — Bernie Sanders is making a push for support from black and Hispanic voters as he seeks to...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In March of 2007, I wrote a column under the headline: “Obama Drama.” It began, “Will the euphoria sweeping through...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist For the past 50 years, most of our conversations and efforts have been centered on politics. Reminiscent of the Reconstruction...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The mid-term national election will go down as the biggest landslide since 1928. The Democratic Party suffered a full fledge...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist The closer Election Day gets, the more confused I am by the behavior of Democrats. For the past several years,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The Black vote is said to be the determining factor in whether the Democrats hold the U.S. Senate. President Obama is...
