By James Clingman, NNPA Columnist Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand, it never did and never will.” I often wonder what Black people do not understand about that statement. We love to quote it, but when it comes to putting it into practice, we fall far short of the spirit of Douglass’ […]

By Marc H. Morial “I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.” —Adrian Peterson   The NFL may have inadvertently done us all a favor by shedding light on a problem that is too often ignored or swept under the […]

By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has finally emerged from his self-imposed witness protection program, held a press conference, and even attended a football game Sunday. Now that Goodell has come out of hiding, it is not clear that the NFL is any closer to getting it right, as he keeps […]

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Columnist Have you ever seen a photo of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. taking part of a panel discussion? It’s likely he didn’t have time if he were asked. It’s also likely that in the 1950s and 1960s, he wasn’t asked much.  The period King conquered was a time of […]

By Marc H. Morial “The industry that bills itself a meritocracy actually looks more like a mirrortocracy.” — Mitch Kapor, co-chair of the Kapor Center for Social Impact   While the number of African American, Latino and women consumers of Internet and broadband products and services is rising, their numbers at the major Silicon Valley […]

By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist The NFL – which has been referred to as everything from the National Felons League to, in the cases of players, Not For Long – has imposed a lifetime ban on Ray Rice yet rarely disciplines other brazen offenders. And when a team takes the rare action of disciplining […]

By Marc H. Morial “We are facing an important moment in our democracy. While America has twice elected an African American president, there remain far too many places in this country that have never elected an African American judge, commissioner, or board of education member.” —  Sherrilyn Ifill, Esq., writing in the National Urban League’s […]

By Julianne Malveaux The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been floating at or above the 17,000 mark in the past two months – an all-time high. There has been a stumble here and a wrinkle there, but even with a weak unemployment report for August, the Dow has remained over 17,000. This compares with a […]

By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist St. Louis County has 90 municipalities — ranging in population from 13 to nearly 52,000 — and most of them sustain themselves by targeting, fining and jailing poor Missouri residents, many of them Black, who are unable to pay traffic tickets. A “white paper” by ArchCity Defenders, a group […]