By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I find it very unsettling to hear police officers discuss how they believe that BlackLivesMatter protesters and certain politicians,...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities…because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities…because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston...
By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson NNPA Guest Columnist The new highly-acclaimed motion picture ”Selma” suggests that former President Lyndon Baines Johnson was not an ardent...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist African-American quarterbacks have come a long way in American football, not just to play and to start, but to win...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future,...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist What recently happened in Paris was more than a typical act of Islamic terrorism. No, this was the latest...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist As he labored for social, civil and economic justice, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was extremely concerned both about the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist As he labored for social, civil and economic justice, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was extremely concerned both about the...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Sandwiched between the deaths of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and popular ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott, the passing...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist After a phenomenal election last November in which Republicans increased their margins in the House and took control of the...
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist “Like the rest of America, Black America, in the aggregate, is better off now than it was when I...
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist “New York, New York Big City of Dreams but Everything in New York is Not Always What It Seems You...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The 2015 Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday should have a different impact on the collective consciousness of...
By Omar Tyree NNPA Columnist In the middle of turmoil between police officers and unarmed African-Americans is the need for ex-pros Charles Barkley and Mike...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist What now? What a raucous, topsy-turvy, heart-wrenching, angry year we experienced in 2014. We had everything from the sadness of...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist I found it quite amazing to hear the reactions by much of the public to the Senate Intelligence Committee...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I will be 67 years old next month. For nearly half of those years my wife, Kay, and I...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist There they go again! Just as the Republican Party is poised to take control of Congress, a key official’s...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Patrick Lynch, do you remember Oscar Grant? And if you do, Mr. “leader” of the New York Police Department Union,...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist To Marry to not to Marry Dear Alma, A friend of mine is engaged to her fiancé of 4 years,...