By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist There is a bee that hovers by my mailbox. I have never had this experience. When I approach the...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist There is a bee that hovers by my mailbox. I have never had this experience. When I approach the...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Question: When men (and a few women) belonging to gangs known to law enforcement agencies for criminal behavior explode...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Hip-hop culture is about transformation. It is more than a global genre of music. Hip-hop is a transcendent...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist My Daughter Wants Mom to Walk Her Down Aisle Dear Alma, I was married to my wife for 11 years....
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. / It’s had tacks in it, /And splinters, / And boards torn...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Last week, I received an email from my friend, NNPA News Service Editor-in-Chief George E. Curry. It was a...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist By the time you read this article, millions of college students will have graduated and be looking for jobs, many...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist President Obama recently participated in a long overdue panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University. As regular readers of...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Freddie Gray is neither the first, nor will he be the last person to die in police custody. According to...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist As a baby-boomer who grew up on war movies, I thought of veterans as various forms of heroes. I...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist It’s always very challenging for a parent when their child has a serious health condition. It’s even more challenging when...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist When it comes to consumer finance, traditional lenders usually review credit scores before reaching a decision. In general, the higher a...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist I woke up this Tuesday morning to another bomb of sports news dropped on the NFL: “Four-time Super Bowl winning...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist More than any other first lady of the United States of America, Michelle Obama continues to stand above...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The Republican Party doesn’t have a lunatic fringe. It has a lunatic center: a core bloc of White voters and...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Few Hang-out Friends Dear Alma, I have a nice majority of friends. However, I hang out mostly with my cousin....
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The men and women who wear our nation’s uniform are expected to defend our nation at home and abroad. Yet,...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist How can you tell when a politician is lying? When he moves his lips. Though originally intended as a...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In December 2009 the airliner I was on touched down in Hanoi, Vietnam. That was my first time to...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In December 2009 the airliner I was on touched down in Hanoi, Vietnam. That was my first time to...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist You won’t believe the latest tactics being used by the folks at the national and state levels of the NAACP....
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist You won’t believe the latest tactics being used by the folks at the national and state levels of the NAACP....
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Are we living in the last days? If so, what are we doing about it? It seems the world is...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The recent Department of Justice report on police and court practices in Ferguson, Mo. put a much needed spotlight...