By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. The talk shows are filled with the latest rumor about WikiLeaks and Russian interference in our elections. What was done still remains a mystery. But Republican tricky leaks—the systematic efforts to suppress the vote—are an established fact, and a far greater threat to free elections. The facts are not in […]
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Black Women You Should Know
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) All too often, our “history” month turns into a tribute to the past. And while the past is an important place to lift up it is, indeed, a tributary, a stream that flows into the larger stream of an unbounded future. The future must always be greater than the […]
Home-Grown Reactionaries, Not Russians, are Greatest Threat to Our Elections
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. This past weekend, we once again gathered in Selma, Ala., to commemorate “Bloody Sunday,” the March 7, 1965, march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge that was savagely put down by police. That march – and the march from Selma to Montgomery that followed under federal protection – helped galvanize public […]
Trump’s Kangaroo White House
Capitol Report By State Representative, Leon D. Young They come and for whatever reason they go. This has been the ongoing spectacle at the White House. Donald Trump’s White House is a more chaotic one than we’ve been used to. That’s not to say that every White House isn’t a chaotic one, but Trump’s is […]
Is Trump the Worst President in the Last 50 Years?
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Donald Trump, a man best known as a “birther” with a reality TV show and a real estate empire, who claimed that Mexico was sending drugs and rapists to the United States, was sworn in as president on January 20, 2017. What happened next was predictable and we […]
Four Things President Obama Can Do to Help Blacks in His Last 100 Days
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Newswire Columnist The countdown to President Obama’s last one hundred days began on October 13. Already, the President has committed to spending his waning days in office by campaigning for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for President. Indeed, he has put his legacy on the line, telling Black people at his […]
On the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis: Crime, Antidotes, Overdoses
By Avis Thomas-Lester Urban News Service Kanawha County Sheriff’s Lt. Scott Elkins gets ready for his 12-hour shift by checking his patrol car and equipment, then contacting the dispatcher to discuss the team of deputies with whom he will patrol 900 square miles until dawn. Lastly, Elkins inspects his supply of Narcan, the trade name […]
Presidential Debate: Trump Rooted for Housing Crisis
During the first presidential debate between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and reality TV star Donald Trump an issue which has been infrequently discussed during the campaign rose to the forefront – the housing crisis. Milwaukee was one of the hardest hit cities in the country when it came to housing during the Great […]
Hillary Needs Your Vote – Early
By Chirlane McCray Let me ask you a question: Are you prepared to head to the polls this election season and vote early? The first communities in Wisconsin have already started voting. And it’s really easy — all you need to do is bring your identification with you when you cast your ballot. And if […]
The Biggest “Birther” of All – Donald Trump
By Urban Media News Staff Since the election of America’s first African-American president, Barack Obama, fringe figures across the United States have sought to undermine his legitimacy. From describing his sense of “otherness” to questioning whether or not he was born in the United States, every so-called “birther” argument has reeked of race based disparagement. […]