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 Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist “Where do I start? How about undefinable frustration? It seems we can’t even catch our breath from our first...
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...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist If you haven’t seen the movie “Selma” yet please hurry up and do I and take your family and...
Dear President Obama: We love you. We respect you. We support you. We strongly supported your becoming President and have continued to support you through...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we now have the resources to get...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Has Black America made significant progress politically, socially and economically over the past 50 years? This is not...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week I thought Stevie Wonder gave a great State of the Union Speech. Oops, did I say Stevie Wonder,...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Although a series of civil rights laws were enacted in the 1960s, in the 21st Century many of these victories...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist It has been deeply disturbing to hear and read suggestions that there is something inherently violent in Islam that...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The dominance of social media and our never-ending thirst for faster ways to communicate have relegated many of our people...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist There is something at work in both the appearance itself of Ana DuVernay’s “Selma” and in the controversy over...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama knocked it out of the park during the State of the Union address. He was strong, progressive,...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist My Husband Holds Grudges Dear Alma, My husband cannot let things go – he holds grudges for way longer than...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist One day, when the glory comes It will be ours, it will be ours Oh, one day, when...
By Lezli Baskerville NNPA Guest Columnist The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), applauds President Obama’s proposal to make community college tuition...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Few things irk me more than hearing someone say or imply that now that we have a Black president,...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Exactly what is there in 1 million Black folks united in their will and purpose? What is in a million...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist In the aftermath of the killings of staff at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, there has been near...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist When it comes to the issue of gay rights in America, sometimes you can see the tide of a...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist When it comes to the issue of gay rights in America, sometimes you can see the tide of a...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist With the recent terrorists attacks in Paris over a largely unknown satirical newspaper that poked fun at Islam and Mohammed,...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama has been catching hell from all sides lately because of his refusal to utter the words...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist President Barack Obama has been catching hell from all sides lately because of his refusal to utter the words...