Editorials

by Dr. Julianne Malveaux When a seventeen-year-old white boy walks down the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, with a loaded automatic weapon, he is cheered and thanked by the police and offered a water bottle. No […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., President and CEO, National Newspaper Publishers Association – Black Americans have to be involved at all levels of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We cannot afford […]

By Jesse Jackson – Lagging in the polls, Donald Trump has launched a campaign to discredit the upcoming election and disparage the United States Postal Service. He’s repeated the utterly baseless claim that voting by […]

By Tammy Gibson, Contributing Writer – Emmett Till, age 14,  was kidnapped and murdered 65 years ago today in Mississippi and the family of Till continues to seek justice.  The family’s pain is still raw, but […]

By A.R. Shaw – Steve Stoute understands the importance of the 2020 election. To drive the significance of the Black vote, Stoute, a serial entrepreneur and music executive, recently sat down with NBA star Kevin Durant […]

Black lives don’t matter in Portland. I know, I know—controversial statement. You ask the “average” white or non-white Portlander that lives a life replete with white privilege (in a city that, according to 2019’s US Census […]

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the police shooting of Jacob Blake: Another horrendous shooting by police. Another Black man wounded. Another police department under national scrutiny. With the shooting of Jacob Blake Sunday night, Kenosha […]

 What would you do if somebody walked by your house and promised to rob it the next day?  Most of us would take every precaution, checking the locks, the door, and the windows.  Some of […]

By Clarence McKee – Do you know the name, Cannon Hinnant? Most likely not. Cannon is the five-year-old boy who was shot in the head at point-blank range in his yard last week in Wilson, […]

By Kevin Palmer -Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s political anti-Black soulmate. Kamala’s anti-Black track record was probably the deciding factor in her vice-presidential candidate selection. Her role is to seduce politically native Blacks to vote […]