by Amanda Zhang People from all walks of life enjoy marijuana — white people, black people, poor people, old people, republicans, liberals — in America’s 300 some years of existence, smoking pot may just be the most egalitarian past-time in the history of our great nation — unlike college education. The current cost of college […]
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Buzzwords Used to Describe African-Americans Seen as Harmful
by Jessica R. Key Special to the NNPA from The Indianapolis Recorder Whether in print, on television or on social media, people are beginning to use code words or phrases to describe African-Americans. “Urban” is now the politically-correct term for Black people, neighborhoods or style of dress; “thug” is sometimes code for the N-word; and […]
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GOP’s Raging Intra-Party War
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The August 6th Fox-News-sponsored, two-tiered debate of the GOP presidential primary candidates has shown anew the Republican Party’s continuing to explore different ways a political party can self-destruct. Two developments of last week have underscored that the GOP’s raging intra-party war and identity crisis is more serious than ever. […]
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Bishop T.D. Jakes On The Black Church’s Shifting Stance On Homosexuality
Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Bishop T.D. Jakes thinks it is “absolutely” possible for the LGBT and black communities to coexist. Jakes, who joined HuffPost Live on Monday, opened up to host Marc Lamont-Hill about his thoughts on the relationship between these communities. “I think that it’s going to diverse from […]
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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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Straight Outta Compton
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic Warning: This isn’t some chump change Sundance indie movie about the rap group NWA. Nor is it a should-have-gone-straight-to-DVD afterthought about hip-hop culture. This is a full-fledged, big-budget looking homage to the L.A. rap scene that smartly, emotionally and historically capsulizes the life and times of Eazy-E, Ice Cube, […]
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U.S. Gun Violence: A Human Rights Failure
by Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The United Nations Human Rights Committee has given the U.S. a series of failing grades on human rights, including failing to meet international human rights standards on gun violence; the uneven implementation of controversial Stand Your Ground laws; violating personal privacy; and doing a poor job […]
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The Fight to Exonerate Marcus Garvey
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist August 17 will mark the 128th birthday of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the visionary Jamaican-born leader who built the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIAACL) into the largest mass movement for liberation in the history of Africans in America and perhaps the world. As such, I have long […]
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Your Silence Still Won’t Protect You: Reflections on Audre Lorde, Sandra Bland, & the Power of Speaking
By Amber Walker July 31, 2015 Amber Walker “Audre Lorde said, ‘Your silence will not protect you,’ but, for Black women, the price of speaking truth to power can be your life.” Throughout my life, my elders, teachers, peers and partners reiterated that I have “quite the mouth on me.” […]
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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 […]
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