By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In light of the conversations about police abuse, unwarranted stops and arrests, and homicide cases involving Black people and police...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Now that the confederate flag has been taken down, complete with honor guard and pomp and circumstance, what are Black...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Incidents over just the past two months have taken Black folks on the psychological ride of our lives. The White...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Now there are some ‘practical’ things we can do. We begin the process of building a greater economic base. And...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The cost of air travel, coupled with all of the delays and cancellations, is very frustrating. For example, there was...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In March of 2007, I wrote a column under the headline: “Obama Drama.” It began, “Will the euphoria sweeping through...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist In March of 2007, I wrote a column under the headline: “Obama Drama.” It began, “Will the euphoria sweeping through...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “In the Northern states, we are not slaves to individuals, not personal slaves, yet in many ways we are slaves...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “In the Northern states, we are not slaves to individuals, not personal slaves, yet in many ways we are slaves...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Discussions in the news media (I’d rather call it the “Views Media”) regarding the use of the word, “Thug,” are...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist For the past 50 years, most of our conversations and efforts have been centered on politics. Reminiscent of the Reconstruction...
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 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 James Clingman NNPA Columnist The movie we are watching in Baltimore is a re-run and a sequel. The price of admission has always been...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The movie we are watching in Baltimore is a re-run and a sequel. The price of admission has always been...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “America leads the world in shocks.” Those immortal words were spoken by the late Gil Scott-Heron during the Nixon “H2O...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “Who can I turn to, when nobody needs me? My heart wants to know, and so I must go where destiny...
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By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Having seen how Black people are mistreated in country, not only historically but presently, I thought about that gloriously perfect...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The experiment that featured a Black man in the White house is on the downside now. Folks in the Obama...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The experiment that featured a Black man in the White house is on the downside now. Folks in the Obama...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Writing has been a catharsis for me since my “angry days” in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. I used...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Ever since President Bill Clinton apologized for the Tuskegee syphilis “experiment” in 1997, we have heard calls for apologies from...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Ever since President Bill Clinton apologized for the Tuskegee syphilis “experiment” in 1997, we have heard calls for apologies from...