by Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist Nick Cocchi would like to be the sheriff of Hampden County, an Eastern Massachusetts county of half a million people. Springfield, Massachusetts, a city that is about 22 percent African American, is the county seat. Eastern Massachusetts (and indeed, much of New England) is experiencing the devastating fallout […]
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Standing on Sacred Ground
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist Three unarmed Black men encountered a group of White men walking down a dirt road in Slocum, Texas on July 29, 1910. Without warning, and with no reason, the White men opened fire on the Black men. And for two days White men simply slaughtered Black people. Eight […]
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What Will You Sacrifice for Justice?
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once wrote, “It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.” Those students who are protesting campus racism need to keep that quote in mind […]
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What Does Terrorism Look Like?
by Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist I am among the tens of millions who had to be peeled away from their television set on Friday, November 13 and in the days after ISIS terrorists randomly massacred at least 130 people and wounded hundreds more in Paris. Then, there was the nearly 30 people executed […]
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10 Questions Every Presidential Candidate Must Answer
by Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Bye, bye Biden. The Vice-President who might have given the Honorable Hillary Clinton a run for her money has concluded that the timing is not right for him. Clinton needs someone to rattle her cage, to push her to be more focused in the general election. Now, Senator Bernie Sanders […]
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What the First Democratic Presidential Debate Showed Us About the Candidates
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist In contrast to the more entertaining Republican presidential candidate debates, the first Democratic presidential candidate debate was more absorbing. We heard from grownups that refrained from personal attacks and offered solid information about their positions. While there were mild fireworks, there was much gravitas, and the sagacity with which these […]
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We Must Do More to Close Achievement Gap
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Thousands of pages have been written about the achievement gap – the fact that White kids score higher than either Black or Latino kids who sometimes sit right next to them in classrooms. And despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent to close the achievement gap, the National Assessment of […]
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For Centuries, Black Lives Did Not Matter
By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist July 31, 2015 Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist It ought to be unnecessary for an activist movement to hinge on the principle of the equivalency of life. In the worlds of Democratic presidential candidates (don’t get me started on the Republicans), there is a compelling need to point […]
Tear Down the Walls of Economic Inequality
By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist July 17, 2015 Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist After a spirited debate, the South Carolina House and Senate voted overwhelmingly to remove the Confederate battle flag from Statehouse grounds at the urging of Gov. Nikki Haley, who quickly signed the measure into law. The flag was lowered for […]
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Church Burnings Should Ignite More Protests
By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist July 10, 2015 Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist It’s possible that lightening may have caused one of the fires. Another may be the result of faulty electricity. Still, in the past couple of weeks, there were fires at churches in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ohio and […]