Blackonomics: A Million Reasons to Change
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Exactly what is there in 1 million Black folks united in their will and purpose? What is in a million brothers and sisters who are tired of the same old rhetoric,...
View ArticlePower to The People: Black Panther Documentary Sundance Premiere
Nicole Franklin, NBC NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (NBC News)—Unyielding in its exploration of Black Panther pride, confrontations and in-fighting, “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution” is a...
View ArticleBlackonomics: Longing for ‘Conversation without Abbreviation’
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The dominance of social media and our never-ending thirst for faster ways to communicate have relegated many of our people to a 140-character mentality, a...
View Article50 Years of Black Progress
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Has Black America made significant progress politically, socially and economically over the past 50 years? This is not only an important question to pose,...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Carter G. Woodson
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The best way to celebrate Black History Month is to make more Black history. Black History Month is now celebrated around the world. We are grateful for the...
View ArticleLooking Beyond Ferguson, Mo.
By Claud Anderson NNPA Guest Columnist The lack of respect for a Black man’s life, rights and contributions became infused into the nation’s national spirit and codified in the legal and political...
View ArticleAttacking Economic Racism
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Despite ill-intended efforts to do it for us, Black Americans have a responsibility to define our own reality. It is a fundamental human right recognized and...
View ArticleHip Hop Corner: Planning for our Own Success
By Jineea Butler NNPA Columnist Are we living in the last days? If so, what are we doing about it? It seems the world is coming apart at the seams. The Muslims are attacking the Christians, the...
View ArticleHow Do We Talk To Our Young Girls About Baltimore? Residents & Community...
By Christina Coleman Special to the NNPA via The Chicago Defender (NNPA) — The conversation surrounding police brutality in Black communities often excludes women of color, despite their very...
View ArticleBlackonomics: ‘I’ Versus ‘We’
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist “In the Northern states, we are not slaves to individuals, not personal slaves, yet in many ways we are slaves of the community…It is more than a figure of speech to...
View ArticleBlackonomics: Blacks are Today’s Putty People
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Incidents over just the past two months have taken Black folks on the psychological ride of our lives. The White woman in Spokane, Wash., who passed as Black caught...
View ArticleBlackonomics: Celebrating the Life of Marcus Garvey
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Happy Birthday, Marcus Garvey! This is not a history lesson; it is simply about homage, recognition, and appreciation of a Black man who loved his people so much that...
View ArticleOur White Liberal Conundrum
By Walter L. Fields NNPA Columnist One of the enduring debates since the enslavement of Africans in the American colonies has been the extent to which well-meaning Whites can appropriate Black...
View ArticleThe Power of the Black Press
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Whenever there is a steady series of public questions being raised about the “power” of Black Americans, you should always first consider the motive and...
View ArticleBlack Press: The Voice of America—Part II
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The June unemployment rate is was down to 6.1 percent. Yet, for the vast majority of more than 45 million Black Americans, the persistent unemployment rate in...
View ArticleBlackonomics: No Justice, No Profit
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist What now? What a raucous, topsy-turvy, heart-wrenching, angry year we experienced in 2014. We had everything from the sadness of lives lost on airplanes and ferry...
View ArticleBlackonomics: A Million Reasons to Change
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Exactly what is there in 1 million Black folks united in their will and purpose? What is in a million brothers and sisters who are tired of the same old rhetoric, the...
View ArticlePower to The People: Black Panther Documentary Sundance Premiere
Nicole Franklin, NBC NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (NBC News)—Unyielding in its exploration of Black Panther pride, confrontations and in-fighting, “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution” is a...
View ArticleBlackonomics: Longing for ‘Conversation without Abbreviation’
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The dominance of social media and our never-ending thirst for faster ways to communicate have relegated many of our people to a 140-character mentality, a nano-second...
View Article50 Years of Black Progress
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Has Black America made significant progress politically, socially and economically over the past 50 years? This is not only an important question to pose, it...
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