Transitions In My Hair And My Head
By Rassarah Winters I’m watching the TV show How to Get Away with Murder. There’s Cicely Tyson combing Viola Davis’ hair. Davis, who plays a …
The Conveniently Missing Racial Politics of EpiPen Access
The availability of essential lifesaving tools like the EpiPen never rises to being a crisis until the price hits white people’s wallets. Foreclosures and …
Black Women Were Too Lazy to Find Work and 4 Other Myths of Welfare Reform
Welfare reform is 20 years old. On Aug. 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, “ending …
American Lynching: 4,000 Unpunished Crimes
When I speak or teach, I love to tell my audiences that I know, deep in my heart, that they would turn down $1 million if it were offered to them. You would, …
A victory for Affirmative Action
BY GEORGE E. CURRY, NNPA Columnist Almost lost among the news last week about the war in the Middle East and a war of another kind in Washington between …
Republicans’ selective memory on executive order
BY GEORGE E. CURRY, NNPA Columnist To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, arguably the most overrated U.S. president in history, there they go again. They, of course, …
Missing the point
BY WILLIAM SPRIGGS Currently, the debate on American colleges and universities is dominated by the cost of tuition. This debate misses the point. Let’s …
The Supreme Court’s ‘Religious Freedom’
BY LEE A. DANIELS, NNPA Columnist Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two decisions that the Court’s conservative majority and the larger conservative …
The Congressional Black Caucus has no conscience
BY RAYNARD JACKSON, NNPA Columnist The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) describes itself as “the conscience of the U.S. Congress.” According to the …
U.S. late in courting African leaders
BY HARRY C. ALFORD, NNPA Columnist In 2008, the whole world applauded the United States for electing its first African American president. No part of the …