#BlackGirlsMatter Right Here in America

  By Walter Fields NNPA Columnist Every morning, when I fix my teenage daughter breakfast and drop her off to school, she reminds me that #BlackGirlsMatter. Her journey has not been easy; made all the more difficult by an experience, beginning in middle school and persisting to high school, that

In the Interest of Black Women

  By Dr. E. Faye Williams Trice Edney News Wire March is designated annually as Women’s History Month. I always enjoy this and other cultural observances by allowing myself to deeply reflect on the progress by the designated group as well as any new or existing obstacles placed or remaining

Selma’s Lesson — The Struggle Continues

  By Jesse Jackson Trice Edney News Wire President Barack Obama marked the 50th anniversary of Selma by celebrating the ordinary heroes who sacrificed so much to make America better. Noting that nearly 100 members of Congress were in the audience, he urged them to return to Washington to strengthen

By Julianne Malveaux Trice Edney News Wire Congressman Jeff Denham (R-CA) couldn’t bring his French bulldog, Lily, on an Amtrak train. So when Amtrak funding came up for a vote, he inserted a provision that required one car on an Amtrak train to be designated a “pet car”. Pet owners

And the First Shall Be Last

By Dr. E. Faye Williams Trice Edney News Wire So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. (Matthew 20:16 – KJV) As a student of The Bible, I’ve engaged in and observed numerous discussions related to the meaning of this biblical

Democrats Still Searching for Winning Formula

    By Julianne Malveaux Trice Edney News Wire Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel just got spanked. Despite a campaign war chest of more than $15 million and the support of President Barack Obama, the former Congressman and White House chief of staff could not avoid a run-off in the non-partisan

Dr. King’s Bold Case for Economics

By Matthew C. Whitaker NNPA Guest Columnist Black History Month is over, but we should move past the standardized foci and platitudes that mark our commemoration. We have a history that challenges us to address vestiges of intolerance and redress the inequality that still undermines African American upward mobility throughout

DuBois and Trotter: My Civil Rights Heroes

  By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In the interest of full disclosure, I have been a W.E.B. DuBois fanatic since my teenage years in Tuscaloosa, Ala. I have a healthy collection of books by and about DuBois, including David Levering Lewis’ two-volume biography of DuBois (W.E.B. Du Bois: The

Don’t Forget Malcolm X in 50th Anniversary Celebrations

    By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist The 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the Selma to Montgomery March, and the passage of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Dr. Martin Luther King’s role in these events is correctly capturing the imagination of Black America. However, there is another

A Different Standard for Black Girls

  By LeConté J. Dill NNPA Guest Columnist Nearly 40 years ago, a metaphor or fable, if you will, about “upstream-downstream” was created by healthcare practitioners to better explain and argue for the value of preventative health care measures. The fable describes a group of community members standing near a