Opinion

(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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

When it was announced that President Obama, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. and Police Sgt. James Crowley would hold a beer summit in the White House, the suds tag lines began flowing. They included […]

In case you have missed it, there has been a battle royal over health care reform in the House of Representatives, but the main one has taken place within the Democratic Party between the 80-member […]

Black Folk Must Advocate for Health Care Reform Congress seems to be putting the final touches on health care reform legislation, arranging to provide health care, especially, for the uninsured. Anyone who has made the […]