WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Although most today’s headlines focus on Black educational failures, there are many positive achievements by Black students that often go overlooked, according to a new study.A recently released report from the National Black Child Development Institute takes a confident and constructive look at our children. “Being Black Is Not a Risk Factor: […]

WASHINGTON (IPS) — After a drone strike had reportedly killed Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud Nov. 1, the spokesperson for the U.S. National Security Council declared that, if true, it would be “a serious loss” for the terrorist organization.That reaction accurately reflected the Central Intelligence Agency’s argument for the strike. But the back story of […]

 WASHINGTON (NNPA) —Under unrelenting attacks — including from Democratic supporters – President Obama and White House officials continue to struggle as they try to blunt criticism that that President Obama stretched the truth in describing coverage options for consumers who already had health insurance before the roll out of healthcare.gov and the individual mandate policy […]

 Last week’s elections for the governorships of New Jersey, where the Republican incumbent won, and Virginia, where the Republican contender lost, have thrown into sharp relief two political dynamics it’s important to not lose sight of.The first is that Black voters in both statewide contests (and in the New York City mayor’s race) have once […]

WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Last week, President Barack Obama said what many people who visited healthcare.gov to browse and buy affordable health insurance already knew: The website, tied so heavily to the success of the Affordable Care Act, wasn’t working properly.“And there’s no sugarcoating it,” said President Obama during a speech on the Affordable Care Act […]

  Robert L. Johnson announces a campaign to end payday lending and to encourage access to low interest rate borrowing alternatives. Initiative To Call On Minority Organizations, Elected Officials, and Consumer Groups To Support Low Interest Solutions For Consumers In Need Of Short Term And Emergency Borrowing   BETHESDA, MD Robert L. Johnson, founder and […]

  By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent   ASHVILLE, N.C. (NNPA) – The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded $75 million in grants for a 5-year project called the American Healing Initiative. But in an unusual and unexpected move, the foundation assembled some of the grantees here recently to help heal the healers. The W.K. Kellogg […]

  By Julianne Malveaux   The Senate’s Gang of Eight have put together an 844-page monstrosity known as the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, legislation that President Obama says he “basically approves” of. The crafters of this essentially unreadable bill was put together by Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Chuck […]

By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist“Sometimes I close my eyes and all I can remember is that awful day…But other times, I feel Ben’s presence filling me with courage for what I have to do…”Francine Wheeler, mother of 6-year-old Ben Wheeler, one of the 26 victims of the December 14 Sandy Hook tragedy. I recently took […]

  By Marian Wright Edelman The United States Senate’s failure to pass common sense gun safety measures – the Manchin-Toomey Amendment to expand background checks to keep guns away from underage or dangerous people, and amendments to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines designed only to kill as many human beings as possible — […]