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...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The protest slogans addressing our latest struggle for justice and equity compel me to come up with a new...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist During the 50-year period from 1963 (“I have a dream!”) to 2013, Black people have been on a virtual...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist While recalling those commercials, featuring Andre Agassi (pro tennis player) saying, “Image is everything” and Billy Crystal’s “Saturday Night...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist There comes a time in the course of human events for persons who have been mistreated to dissolve the political...
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist How many times, especially during or just after a tragedy like the killing of Eric Garner, have you heard one...