By Armstrong Williams NNPA News Wire Columnist By all accounts, the political arena has proven to be full of surprises in 2015. We’ve witnessed the improbable and inexorable the rise of the outsider candidate, as first-time office seekers Dr. Ben Carson and business mogul Donald Trump have lead the Republican Primary for the better part […]
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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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Open Expressions of Racism
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist The other day a friend of mine, after hearing the latest rants by Presidential candidate Donald Trump, asked whether we are better off with open expressions of racism than having such expressions silenced. I found the question quite interesting and provocative. It spoke to the nature of […]
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We Can No Longer Remain Silent – Terror is Terror Part 3
Universally Speaking Message To The Black Community The association of terrorism with Islam is an old, dirty trick to glorify white supremacy and the religion of Christianity. Two very important points I would like to make in writing this article: 1.) We need to expand the concepts of terrorism and terrorist. 2.) We need to […]
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To Uber or Not to Uber, That Is the Question
by Matiya Hill As always welcome back to Brown Girl Green Money, thank you for taking the time to visit. The holidays are among us again, and for some that means shopping, gifts, and quality time with family and friends. Once again, I have the task of remaining financially responsible and purchasing the flyest presents […]
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Blackonomics: The NAACP is Broken, Members must fix it
By James Clingman NNPA News Wire Columnist Having served the NAACP for ten years in several capacities, including branch president, and having donated money to its causes, I take no pleasure in writing this exposé. But it is our responsibility to clean up our own organizations. For example, President Cornell Brooks sends missives on a […]
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Message to the Black Man: We Must Do For Self – Part II
Universally Speaking I consider myself a “Garvey-ite” because Marcus Garvey was a master of this philosophy. In early 1900s, Marcus Garvey was a leader of the largest Black movement in our history and his legacy has been treated as buffoonery or a joke. How did he do it, given the unbelievable opposition that he faced […]
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Strategic Power of the Black Press in 2016
by Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist For over 45 million African Americans there are multiple priorities that need to be addressed in order to ensure that the socioeconomic and political interests of our families and communities are accurately articulated and fulfilled. We live in a multimedia world. Too often, however, we are […]
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Climate Change and Black America
by Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist Why are millions of Black American youth and elders suffering disproportionately from asthma and other respiratory illnesses much more than the national norm? Why is the overall public health status of Black Americans at a higher risk than other Americans? What do public environmental and climate […]
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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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