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The Confederate Flag a Symbol of Racism in America – SC Take it Down

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

I don’t know what angered and upset me the most – hearing about the nine blacks murdered in the Charleston, South Carolina African Methodist Episcopal church or hearing some of the nonsense coming from Republicans […]

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Left and Right Converge on Criminal Justice Reform

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist While social change for some may appear to be inevitable, it does not happen by osmosis, and it does not occur without a focused effort led by those […]

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Emmanuel AME and the Buoyancy of Hope

June 25, 2015 Staff 0

By Lee A. Daniels NNPA ColumnistRev. Clementa Pinckney and his fellow congregants of Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. gathered as usual in the historic edifice June 17 for their Wednesday evening […]

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Should African Americans Endorse Whites over Blacks?

April 14, 2015 Staff 0

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Two prominent Black Maryland officials – Montgomery County Executive Issiah Leggett and Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III – have endorsed Congressman Chris Van Hollen, a White, over […]

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Jailing Educators for ‘Cheating to the Test’

April 14, 2015 Staff 0

by Dr. Julianne Malveaux Eleven Atlanta teachers have been convicted of altering student test scores on standardized tests. They are charged with racketeering and conspiracy. The much-celebrated Superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools Beverly L. Hall […]

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Should Florida become a Vegas-style Casino State?

April 14, 2015 Staff 0

by Reggie Fullwood “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are,” said the great writer C. S. […]

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#BlackGirlsMatter Right Here in America

March 17, 2015 Staff 0

Every morning, when I fix my teenage daughter breakfast and drop her off to school, she reminds me that #BlackGirlsMatter. Her journey has not been easy; made all the more difficult by an experience, beginning […]

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Common Core Education Standards Still a Major Issue

March 17, 2015 Staff 0

Charles Dudley Warner infamously said, “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” What if I told you that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and current president of the U.S. President Obama agree on more than they probably disagree […]

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The 50th Anniversary of the Assassination of Malcolm X

February 12, 2015 Staff 0

by Ron Daniels The 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March, and the passage of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Dr. Martin Luther King’s role in these events is […]

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Why Black History Month is Still Relevant

February 10, 2015 Staff 0

by Reggie Fullwood “Freedom is never given; it is won,” said the great organizer and leader A. Phillip Randolph. Black history is a history of fighting for freedoms and recognitions that were once denied.” If […]

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