By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist In all the hoopla surrounding President Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, overlooked is that fact that our young girls also need to be targeted for special attention. Sure, they outpace Black males in college attendance and, in many instances, in the workplace. Still, that does not mean they do […]
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“Run, Jesse, Run” – 30 Years Later
By George Curry The recent Wall Street Project conference in New York City was old home week for many of us who were involved with Jesse Jackson’s first presidential campaign in 1984. There was Frank Watkins, the former candidate’s longtime press secretary and the driving force behind Jackson’s decision to run. Also present were […]
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Blacks have more reasons to be fearful than whites
By Julianne Malveaux In the years after enslavement, Southern Whites did all they could to return to a manner of slavery. No White “owned” a Black person, but many Whites behaved as if they did. Theoretically, Blacks were free to come and go as they pleased, but if they went to the wrong store, […]
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Black History Month: Needed now more than ever
By Marc H. Morial “There is no more powerful force than a people steeped in their history. And there is no higher cause than honoring our struggle and ancestors by remembering.”—Lonnie Bunch,founding director, National Museum of African American History and Culture Ever since the 2009 election of Barack Obama as America’s first Black president and […]
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Another Florida man gets away with murder
By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist As we approach the second anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s murder on Sanford, Fla., justice again has been shortchanged in the Sunshine State. It was incredulous that George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman and wannabe cop, was found not guilty of murder after killing the unarmed Black teenager who had visited […]
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Clarence Thomas’ self-inflicted amnesia
By Julianne Malveaux Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is at it again. Whenever he opens his mouth about race, he displays a surprising myopia for a 65-year-old African American man who was raised in the Deep South during a segregated era. During his confirmation hearing, Thomas excoriated his own family, speaking of his sister as […]
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A knockout punch for George Zimmerman
By Julianne Malveaux Had he not massacred Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman would be an average White man holding down a mediocre job, living under the radar, and aspiring for a law enforcement job. He and his wife would probably be divorcing (as they are now) on account of his brutality (she cites his beatings in […]
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Dr. King ‘turning in his grave’ over family greed
By George E. Curry, NNPA Editor-in-Chief The children of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sue each other —as well as loyal family friends — so often that you need a program to keep up with the court action. Bernice and Martin Luther King, III sued Dexter because he failed to open the books of their […]
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War on women harms children, too
By Julianne Malveaux In President Barack Obama’s State of the Union (SOU) address, he appealed to our nation’s employers to raise wages from the current minimum of $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour. He has already signed an executive order that requires federal contractors to be paid $10.10 an hour, an only appropriate move […]
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America can’t handle a non-boring pro athlete
By By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., NNPA Columnist Sports are supposed to be the great equalizer. But you wouldn’t know it judging by the news surrounding the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The impact of these bigoted slurs, if left unchallenged, will have a negative impact in the future way beyond sports fields and […]