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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Are You Sure It’s Not 1955? Reflections on Emmett Till’s 74th Birthday
By Amber Walker July 24, 2015 Amber Walker I grew up on the Southside of Chicago, right off 71st Street. Taking the journey down this iconic city’s thoroughfare, I’d notice a brown street sign situated slightly below the one labeled “71st Street:” Emmett Till Road. As a youngster, I always wondered […]
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Symbols are Important to Black America
By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent July 24, 2015 Five days after South Carolina retired the Confederate flag with much fanfare, a small group of protesters in Oklahoma City greeted President Barack Obama with Confederate flags. The following weekend, Ku Klux Klan members in Charleston, S.C. brandished both Confederate and Nazi […]
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To Be Equal: How Will 2016’s Presidential Candidates Save Our Cities?
By Marc H. Morial, NNPA Columnist July 17, 2015 Marc H. Morial, NNPA Columnist “You must register. You must vote. You must learn, so your choice advances your interest and the interest of our beloved Nation. Your future, and your children’s future, depend upon it, and I don’t believe that you are […]
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Blacks Need to Join the Discussion on the Economy
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., NNPA Columnist July 17, 2015 Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., NNPA Columnist One’s worldview or social perspective is mainly informed by a matrix of different socioeconomic and political circumstances. A polling of Black America about the current “recovery” of the economy of the United States would produce a […]
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