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Sweet Home Alabama

November 19, 2014

By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist Above: George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist   It’s been almost 50 years since I lived in Tuscaloosa, Ala. I go back from time to time, but not much after Mama moved to Cleveland about 35 years ago and later to Augusta, Ga. Except for a couple of cousins, all […]

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Time for Black Democrats to Switch

November 11, 2014

By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist Above: George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist   The midterm elections are over, the final numbers are in and they don’t look pretty if you’re a progressive. So, I am going to propose something our national African American leaders should have suggested a long time ago: It’s time for us […]

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Democrats Have No Consistent Message

November 11, 2014

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux Above: Dr. Julianne Malveaux   Pundits are likely to spend the next several weeks attempting to explain the many reasons that Republicans simply kicked the Democrats square in the hind parts to dominate both houses of Congress in ways that had not been expected. With turnout at abysmal low – 33 […]

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Watching the Election From Abroad

November 4, 2014

By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist Above: George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist   JERUSALEM — On Election Night, I usually stay awake as long as my eyelids are willing to cooperate. But this year was different. Instead of alternating between watching CNN and tracking results on the Internet, I was in the Holy Land, nearly […]

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Online Colleges Flunk Common Sense

November 4, 2014

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux Above: Dr. Julianne Malveaux   The most common model of college attendance is that a young person who graduates from high school and heads directly to college, perhaps taking a year off in between to work, take a “13th class. While many students start off right after high school, some of […]

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Growing push to stop payday loan debt trap

November 4, 2014

By Charlene Crowell In recent weeks a consistent drum beat against predatory lending’s small dollar loans has reached regulators and legislators alike. Broad consensus on the real-life harms caused by these lending products has united consumers in all 50 states and forged an unprecedented call of concern linking 467 organizations including civil rights leaders, clergy, […]

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Blacks, not Hispanics, key to election victory

October 28, 2014

By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist Although Latinos are growing at a faster rate than any other ethnic group in the United States, they will have less of an impact on whether Democrats retain control of the Senate than African Americans, according to a study of Census data by the Pew Research Center. The report, […]

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Ebola: A long and ugly tradition of treating Africans as savages

October 28, 2014

By Lekan Oguntoyinbo Of the nearly 10,000 people who have been infected by the Ebola virus, fewer than 20 have been outside of the African continent. But you wouldn’t know it from much of the alarm that’s being raised in some European news outlets and by the outrage of some American politicians who can’t understand […]

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U.S. trails more than 100 countries in voter turnout

October 21, 2014

By George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist Lost in the frenzy to erect barriers to voting, including reducing the hours available for early voting and imposing strict voter ID requirements, is the embarrassing fact that the United States lags behind more than 100 countries in the percentage of registered voters who show up on Election Day. […]

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The Christmas Creep

October 21, 2014

By Julianne Malveaux Did you notice that some stores are already touting Christmas sales?  They are encouraging people to start buying for Christmas now.  We’ve been experiencing this “Christmas creep” for years. Some of us are reluctant to call it “Christmas Creep” because there is no Christ or Christianity in the profligate spending that accompanies […]

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