Editorials

By Victor Trammell – (Source: yourblackworld.net) – In 2017, legendary broadcast journalist Tavis Smiley (pictured) was forced out the door at PBS, the former television home for his long-running evening talk show. Smiley’s acrimonious exit was […]

by The Black Wall Street Times – Today we celebrate Black fathers, the men caring for their families and children. Unlike several recent salacious articles about Black fatherhood and its role on children and families, there is no doubt […]

By Emily Cardenas – (Source: www.miamitimesonline.com) – Vice President Kamala Harris returned from her mission to Latin America battered and bruised. It was her first mission abroad as VP and it didn’t go well. She […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE —  By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. NNPA President and CEO –  (www.blackpressusa.com) – Over 60% of the United States’ population has now had at least one vaccination, in particular from, Pfizer, Moderna, […]

 By Michael Z. Muhammad, Contributing Writer –  June 15, 2021 – Source: new.finalcall.com) – America has entered a long black tunnel, and there is no light. This is the sentiment that Atlanta-based youth mentor William […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE —  Charlene Crowell NNPA Newswire Columnist (Source: www.blackpressusa.com) – Although many officials have called for a ‘return to normal’, millions of small businesses and communities need something new instead. In Black America especially, the […]

THE SACRAMENTO OBSERVER – By Virgil Parker | Trice Edney News Wire (Source: www.balckpressusa.com) – Quincy Williams, a Black father of a 23-year-old son from Laurel Hills, Calif., told his son that interactions with law […]

Maxine L. Bryant – For Savannah Morning News – (Source: www.savannahnow.com) – June 19 is Juneteenth, the oldest African-American holiday observance in the U.S. It is a celebration of “freedom” for Black Americans. Can you imagine the […]

By Leonard Pitts – Source: www.roanoke.com) It’s not just Tulsa. From the 2019 premiere of HBO’s “Watchmen,” which introduced many Americans to a racial atrocity they’d never heard of, to all the recent media attention — […]

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux – Just one year ago, George Floyd was brutally murdered on the streets of Minneapolis at the hands of a rabid “law enforcement” officer who kept his knee to the defenseless […]