Talking White
Black people’s disdain for “proper English” & academic achievement a myth By Jamelle Bouie “All right, hear me out,” begins the …
Hate crime investigation continues in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A three-year federal investigation into groups of suburban white teens crossing into Mississippi’s capital city to attack blacks …
What are your motivational factors? Skin color, culture or character?
God’s name is Holy and He is spirit and truth. Everyone has been created by God as a spirit after His image and likeness—-His nature and character-Genesis …
Double standard chickens coming home to roost
BY RIVERS-CLEVELAND Wow! Just when you thought it was safe to go out, Donald Sterling came lurking from the shadows. This NBA basketball season was supposed to …
How Andromeda, the daughter of Ethiopian royalty, ended up white
One of the most profound qualities of the classical Greek mind has to do with its capacity to interpret human destiny on a cosmic scale. A particularly …
Google boldly did the right thing
BY JESSE L. JACKSON, SR., NNPA Columnist Last week, Google made the bold and necessary decision to release information about their employment diversity, …
Poet, author Maya Angelou dies at 86
BY HILLEL ITALIE, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou, a modern Renaissance woman who survived the harshest of childhoods to become a force on …
Great African American entrepreneurs
Despite tremendous obstacles, these men and women fought for their own financial independence. From the very beginning, black Americans have struggled to make …
Rancher Cliven Bundy and ‘The Negro’
BY LEE A. DANIELS, NNPA Columnist As is typical of blowhards, Cliven Bundy, the conservative movement’s most recently defrocked hero/criminal, opened his …
Black Children at a Disadvantage
A report released by the Annie A. Casey Foundation April 1st highlights nationwide racial disparities that place Asian and white children at higher advantage …