Dear Editor, Governor Barbour announced today (March 17) an additional $19.16-million in cuts to K-12 education. Of that, $16.8-million is to MAEP and $190,671 is to the National Board Certified Teacher Program. This brings the […]
Boys don’t drop out in the 12th grade. They physically drop out in the ninth grade, but they emotionally and academically drop out in the fourth grade. That observation is made early by Jawanza […]
President Obama said on Sunday that he will hold a meeting with Republican lawmakers next week, to be followed by a meeting with members of both parties, in an effort to get health care reform […]
GREENSBORO (NNPA) – Fifty years ago, four North Carolina A&T students took a stand against segregation by sitting down at a F.W. Woolworth’s store counter. This simple act by four freshmen, now known as the […]
Black people in Mississippi have many challenges. Poor health, poor education, high infant mortality, unemployment, incarceration, early death and violent crime affect us more than any other people in America. Some of our problems are […]
When you hear Haiti, what comes to mind? In order to understand what caused the chaos in Haiti, we must revisit history and understand three key questions; “Where did she come from?” “Who is she?” […]
The 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti last week is just the last in an almost unbroken string of catastrophes that have visited the island since it was “discovered” by Columbus. Christopher Columbus and his fellow […]
“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 […]
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