Editorials

Beyond the Rhetoric By Harry C. Alford Last week marked an end to a very divisive debate: Should the people of England remain in the European Union or should they leave? To the surprise of […]

By George E. Curry Last weekend was supposed to be a remix of the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind. Richard G. Hatcher, who became the first Black mayor of Gary in 1968; […]

By Harry C. Alford Terrorism continues to grow in all corners of the world. What in the world are we, the United States, waiting on? During this election year we need to find out the […]

It should bother all of us that a man whom the FBI had investigated as a possible terrorist went into an Orlando nightclub and, claiming ties to the Islamic State, shot 49 people to death […]

By Harry C. Alford Terrorism continues to grow in all corners of the world. What in the world are we, the United States, waiting on? During this election year we need to find out the […]

By Raynard Jackson While there is no denying that Donald Trump has had a terrible past couple of weeks with his dogged focus on some obscure federal judge in San Diego, I think Trump can […]

By Julianne Malveaux Muhammad Ali was, among other things, a proud Black man. He embraced his Blackness, and often referred to it. He is often quoted for saying he had no quarrel with the Vietcong, […]

by Reggie Fullwood America, it is time. Women have fought and died for our great nation – it’s time that a woman take the helm and lead the United States of America. Hillary Clinton has […]

The global corporate giant has taken decisive action against payday lenders and others that charge triple-digit interest rates. by Charlene Crowell, NNPA News Wire | 5/16/2016, 11:35 a.m. Charlene Crowell For more than a decade, […]

By Raynard Jackson (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Last week rapper Snoop Dogg put up an epic video rant on his Instagram. In the verbiage that only Snoop can conjugate, he said in no uncertain terms […]