Editorials

by Marc Morial “Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless […]

By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire Contributor The US House of Representatives passed the Securing America’s Fair Elections (SAFE) Act in June by a nearly totally partisan vote of 225-184 in late June. Only one Republican […]

By Dr. Elizabeth Primas How is Florida addressing the needs of its lowest-performing schools under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)? Last year, the Collaborative for Student Success an independent non-profit education advocacy organization, sought […]

by Shaun King On Saturday evening, at a wonderful festival in Brooklyn just a few miles from my house, 12 people were shot. On Sunday evening, in the Bay Area of California, at a Garlic Food […]

By Lee Brown Back door deals. Bullying. Degrading comments. Stall tactics. Party alienation. Sounds like something out of a New York Times Bestseller. Or maybe an average Thursday in Washington, D.C., right? Maybe. But the […]

by Reggie Fullwood Anyone from Texas likes to brag that “Everything is big” in the Lone Star state. Well, everything included the fact that just a few years ago the state led the nation in […]

By Frederick H. Lowe When President Trump told four congresswomen to go back to where they came from because they didn’t love America, his supporters immediately jumped to his defense. They loudly chanted ‘Send her […]

by Peter Bailey Recently, while shopping in an Ethiopian-owned store in my Washington D.C neighborhood, I witnessed a verbal confrontation between an African-American woman and the Ethiopian sales clerk. She was very upset that on […]

by Julianne Malveaux The first week of July produced a somewhat positive Employment Situation report. While the unemployment rate ticked up just a bit, about 224,000 new jobs were created, nearly three times as many […]

By Glenn Ellis There is no disagreement that African Americans have worse health outcomes across the board. Researchers, scientists, sociologists, and doctor all agree. Data and statistics reflect the dismal reality that if you are […]