By Walter L. Fields NNPA Columnist One of the enduring debates since the enslavement of Africans in the American colonies has been the extent to...
By Walter L. Fields NNPA Columnist A small section of Baltimore, no more than four to six blocks on the city’s west side, experienced looting...
By Walter L. Fields NNPA Columnist When I first viewed the video of Walter Scott being gunned down by North Charleston, S.C. Police Officer Michael...
By Walter L Fields NNPA Columnist In the course of one week we witnessed the burden of being young, gifted and Black. First, the Little...
By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist Every morning, when I fix my teenage daughter breakfast and drop her off to school, she reminds me that #BlackGirlsMatter....
By Walter L Fields NNPA Columnist The fierce and aligned, if not coordinated, campaign to smear the motion picture “Selma” by suggesting it inaccurately portrays...
By Walter L. Fields NNPA Columnist At this moment I don’t need my president to tell me to respect the decision of a tainted grand jury....
By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist It was one of the most difficult scenes in Spike Lee’s classic movie “Do the Right Thing,” the brutal strangulation of...
By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist The body count continues to rise as the nation panders to gun zealots and allows the Constitution to be perverted. The...
By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist Several years ago, I had the pleasure of serving on a panel with the angriest racially-conscious White man in America,...
By Walter L. Fields, Jr NNPA Columnist By any measure Ben Carson is at the top of his field. The renowned surgeon has established a...
By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist Too often during the presidency of Barack Obama, the nation’s first African-American president has felt the need to chide Black Americans...
By Walter Fields NNPA Guest Columnist By chance I watched the NFL playoff games at the home of a friend and former college football player, Vaughn...
By Walter Fields NNPA Guest Columnist There was some disbelief over social media when it was suggested the accused shooter of two Newark, New Jersey...
NNPA Guest Columnist Having spent my youth and adult years actively engaged in civil rights advocacy, not much surprises me when I hear of incidents...
