NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Wall Street Project’s Economic Summit will bring entrepreneurs, corporate executives and the nation’s leading policymakers together to increase business and employment opportunities for African Americans, women, and all people of color. […read more]
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “What the president has done has opened up the eyes of so many people,” said NAACP President, Derrick Johnson. “This nation has still not dealt with race and its appeal to the lowest common dominator of us as a community. We really need to take a step back and focus on what’s important, particularly in this era.” […read more]
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist One’s worldview or social perspective is mainly informed by a matrix of different socioeconomic and political circumstances. A polling of Black America about the current “recovery” of the economy of the United States would produce a dramatically Read More
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states…Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one Read More
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The hardest work in the world is being out of work.” – Whitney M. Young, National Urban League President 1961-1971 One of the advantages of my position as the president and CEO of the National Urban League is that Read More
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “What the people want is very simple: they want an America as good as its promise.” – Texas Congresswoman Barbara C. Jordan There’s no other way to say it. Black America is in crisis. Over the past year, Read More
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “That all citizens will be given an equal start through a sound education is one of the most basic, promised rights of our democracy. Our chronic refusal as a nation to guarantee that right for all children, Read More
Community leaders Terry Boykin and LAPD officer Stinson Brown underscore the need to support young black men and fathers by Corey Arvin Special to the NNPA from Black Voice News Call it the state of black America. Blame it on social engineering or lack of Read More
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist How amazing it is that Black people in this nation, collectively, are the worst off but yet the most comical, entertaining, ostentatious, and self-defeating of all other groups. It is striking how, in spite of all the negative aspects of Read More
By Ron Daniels NNPA Columnist Not long ago, I attended the release of the National Urban League’s Annual State of Black America Report at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The report is an extremely important document because it provides key indicators of Black progress Read More
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Margarita “Maggie” Anderson wants to transform “Buy Black” from a leftover 1960s slogan to a modern economic empowerment strategy. And because she has lived it, there is no person better qualified to lead the charge. Anderson and her family Read More
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The wealth gap between African Americans and Whites has expanded in recent years and is not likely to narrow without significant reductions in Black unemployment and changes in a system that favors the wealthy over poor Read More
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Blacks have fallen behind in their efforts to reach parity with Whites in several key areas since 2010, according to the National Urban League’s new “State of Black America” report. Each year, the report computes an Read More
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. – The late National Urban League and civil rights leader, Whitney M. Young, Jr. Last week, during Read More
By Maya Rhodan NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – When Stephen Compton graduated from Grambling State University in 2006, his goal was to begin his career working for the NFL and move up their corporate ladder. However, just six years later he has another goal Read More
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