By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist It is a national moral disgrace that there are 14.7 million poor children and 6.5 million extremely poor children...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist If you read most of what was reported on the visit of 11 members of the Congressional Black Caucus...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Sam Cooke’s early 1960s pop tune, “Don’t Know Much About History,” was a big hit on the charts. Unfortunately,...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist I like Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Her progressive ideas are just what we need while Hilary Clinton is straddling the...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist A Tough Call Dear Alma, I’m friends with my next door neighbor. She’s not my BFF, but we hang from...
Patrick McGroarty, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL JOHANNESBURG (The Wall Street Journal)—Companies and government officials are illegally moving as much as $60 billion out of Africa...
Jillian Berman, HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—When McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson officially steps down in March, there will be just four black CEOs in the Fortune...
Ralph Ellis, Greg Botelho, and John Newsome, CNN ATLANTA (CNN)—Two days after she was found facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub full of water at her...
David Jackson and Gregory Korte, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—President Obama unveiled a nearly $4 trillion budget that is “designed to bring middle class economics...
Terry Shropshire, Special from the ATLANTA DAILY WORLD (NNPA)—Johnson Publishing, the mothership company of the beleaguered yet iconic magazines Ebony and Jet has put their legendary photo archives on the...
Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY NEW YORK (USA Today)—It’s hard to imagine getting jazzed about an email app in this day and age. But my...
Richard Nieva, CNET (CNET.com)—For the past few quarters, Google’s finances have been the story of same-old, same-old: Desktop search — its biggest business — is...
Scott Wong and Mike Lillis, THE HILL WASHINGTON (The Hill)—Democrats may be flailing in the minority on Capitol Hill, but newly empowered Republicans have fared...
Chris Chase, USA TODAY (USA Today)—The official time of Saturday’s women’s final at the Australian Open was one hour, 51 minutes. In reality, it ended...
Michelle Nichols and Aaron Ross, REUTERS KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters)—United Nations support for a planned military operation against Rwandan rebels in eastern Democratic Republic...
Elias Meseret, ASSOCIATED PRESS ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African leaders have agreed to send 7,500 troops to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast...
Jessica Naziri, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES (USA Today)—Beverly Hamburg is on her third iPad, owns an iPhone, MacBook Air and subscribes to Apple TV. She...
Maya Rhodan, TIME Magazine (TIME.com)—2 chainz: rapper, fierce debater, champion for felon voting rights, and, now perhaps, mayor? Rapper Tauheed Epps, better known by his stage...
(NPR.com)—The NASCAR Hall of Fame inducts an African-American driver for the first time Friday night. Wendell Scott drove during the Jim Crow era, and he...
Victor Blackwell and Devon Sayers, CNN VALDOSTA, Ga. (CNN)—A jury found Kendrick Johnson’s parents and five other family members guilty of misdemeanor charges related to a...
Connie Cass, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — A quick quiz: Monday is — a) Groundhog Day b) Budget Day c) A day for repeating the...
By Frank S. Washington NNPA Columnist NORTHVILLE, Mich. – Honda called it a major minor model change. The automaker increased the fuel economy and added...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Although Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis captured the headlines, it was the death of 26-year-old Jimmie...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Selma’s now for every man, woman and child. Even Jesus got his crown in front of a crowd. They...
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