Editorials

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 […]

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 […]

#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 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 […]

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 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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Fred Ingram The beginning of the school year is a fresh start and a time of transition. For this teacher, it’s bittersweet. I was recently elected secretary-treasurer of my national union, the American Federation […]