(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Word of Former Pres. George Herbert Walker Bush’s passing opened a door to a space in my mind where I had stored memories from 35 years ago. I used a different name then, Leroy Williams Jr.” […read more]
(Julianne Malveaux)
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) When the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) holds its Annual Legislative Conference this September (Sep. 12–16), I hope there will be a tribute to one of its founders, Congressman Ron Dellums, who made his transition on July 30. Dellums was Read More
(Salon) – Woe to the American president who says anything sensible on the subject of religion. President Obama forgot that unwritten rule recently at the National Prayer Breakfast when he pointed out what an eighth-grader could tell you: that acts of violence have been Read More
by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero Special to the NNPA from The Final Call Lt. Col. Oliver North delivers a pro-Contra briefing to the members of the Iran-Contra committee July 14, 1987. North is holding each of the 57 slides and describing what they showed. ‘On Oct. 10, Read More
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – President Ronald Reagan quipped: “In the 60s we waged a war on poverty, and poverty won.” Did it? This month, 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, effectively kicking off the Read More
[LAS VEGAS SUN] President Barack Obama will become the first U.S. leader in three decades to attack another nation without robust international support or in direct defense of Americans, if the U.S. launches military action to punish Syria for alleged chemical weapons attacks against its Read More
©2018 National Newspaper Publishers Association. All rights reserved.
