Editorials

by E.O. Hutchinson Robert Woodward certainly couldn’t have been shocked at Trump’s answer to his very loaded question. The question was whether he could understand any of the racial pain that African Americans feel. Trump […]

Written by Isheka N. Harrison – A recent op-ed in The Washington Post is telling the world to put some respect on the name “Black women” specifically. Written by columnist Donna F. Edwards and communications strategist Gwen […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Is it possible the election will be up in the air and we won’t have a president on Inauguration Day: Jan. 20, 2021? Even if the election is messy and contested in […]

#NNPA BLACKPRESS –  NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Charlene Crowell, Senior Fellow with the Center for Responsible Lending“Racial residential segregation is a significant predictor of the magnitude of the Black-White disparity in fatal police shootings at the […]

By Robert Beard – I grew up, a white boy, in rural North Carolina. One evening in 1951 my family went to visit my Uncle George, but he wasn’t there. Uncle George was a substantial farmer […]

By Reginald J. Clyne, Esq.COVID-19 has become the second-leading cause of death in the nation. As of Labor Day weekend, 188,000 people in the United States have died from this pandemic, out of the 6.29 […]

By John Johnson II –  A segment of White America continues to sow, harvest, and propagate beliefs in their God, Guns, White Supremacy and Trump. God is referenced as their “God,” because it’s hard to […]

TRACEY L. ROGERS | 9/10/2020 – After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, his autopsy report revealed that at the young age of 39, he had “the heart of a 60-year old.” Doctors […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire Contributor – Hundreds of thousands of small businesses, including 40 percent of Black-owned companies, have closed, resulting in permanent job loss. Some of the hardest-hit industries include […]

By Deadric T. Williams and Armon Perry — (The Conversation) — While much of the world was sheltering in place in the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans’ undivided attention was focused squarely on […]