Opinion

We need a stimulus plan to preserve and expand historically black colleges. If the federal government can come up with rationalizations for bailing out Wall Street, making sure there is No Bank Left Behind and […]

I wish I could say I coined this phrase but I can’t. I don’t remember where I heard it (or from whom) but it definitely stuck in my mind. Much of the pathology that we […]

President Barack Obama has led the nation with strength and dignity and has shown the world that we can embrace our international brothers and sisters by allowing room for dialogue that was not present in […]

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done. — Benjamin E. Mays On […]

A New Visions Commentary paper published October 2008 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Court NE #200, Washington, D.C. 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202/543-5975, E-Mail Project21@nationalcenter.org, Web http://www.project21.org. Reprints permitted provided source […]

On Feb. 18, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder gave an excellent speech at the Department of Justice African American History program. He spoke mostly about the lack of meaningful dialogue between the races about racial […]

Domestic violence by an intimate partner is one of the leading killers of black women between the ages of 15 to 24, and occurs on all socioeconomic levels. According to The Institute on Domestic Violence […]

In office 30 days and President Obama has already devised a stimulus package, a bank bailout, and now a mortgage rescue. Like Franklin D. Roosevelt, he has put government’s shoulder into a falling economy. But […]

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Upon its 100th anniversary this week, the NAACP under the leadership of Benjamin Todd Jealous, set aside euphoria over the historic inauguration of the first Black president and challenged the Obama administration […]

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus – and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, […]