Opinion

“The state/government with the power to do things for people has the power to do things to them.” -Thomas Jefferson The government is needed to do for us that we cannot do for ourselves. Or, […]

NNPA The following is a statement by Willarda V. Edwards, M.D., MBA, president of the National Medical Association, regarding the 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations to conduct breast cancer screenings between the […]

The election of President Barack Obama is shifting America’s axis of race in ways that have yet to be politically quantified. But from a standpoint of black political leadership, it signals a definite “changing of […]

(NNPA) – Pretend you are on a church pew.  Worshipping, eight of you.  If you are sitting up in the Black church, two of you eight do not have a job.  Multiply that by the […]

President Obama set off a firestorm of outrage and dissension when he said that he would speak directly to schoolchildren on Tuesday, Sept. 8 about the importance of staying in school, studying and setting educational […]

LETTER TO THE EDITOR BY: PAUL DAVIS Greetings everyone, my name is Paul Davis and I have worked for the Postal Service and have been a member of the APWU for 24 years in Montgomery […]

Special to the NNPA from the Louisiana Weekly (NNPA) – The National Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc. has recently received contracting data from the U.S. Department of Transportation concerning federally funded highway projects. Nationally, Black […]

No one questioned President Barack Obama’s right to deliver an address Wednesday night on health care to a joint session of Congress. However, his decision to address students the day before on the importance of […]

NEW YORK – “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.” Luke 12:48 The above scripture was […]

Senator Edward M. Kennedy was a voice for the voiceless. He was passionate about health care, about children, about education. He understood poverty and often spoke of it. The fact that he touched so many […]