With several days remaining in early voting, we want to remind our dedicated readers and followers that their votes count. For nearly 36 years, we have been a trusted voice in our community, and many are looking to us now for our thoughts on the upcoming runoff which will determine...
President Biden, Please Ignore the Former President
By Julianne Malveaux The previous President, also known as 45, or the Orange Man, or the Nutty Narcissist, kept our nation with his insanity for more than four years. President Biden is best advised to ignore his predecessor and should not even stoop to mention his name. Why not? The...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING: Black Women’s Organizations Matter
By Julianne Malveaux March is Women's History Month, and this month is the perfect time to lift the Black women's organizations that make such an essential difference in our lives. Last year, both the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) and the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING: Trying to Rewrite the Jan. 6 Coup Attempt
By Bill Fletcher, Jr.NNPA Newswire Contributor There is something amazing going on in Republican Party circles. If I did not know better, I would assume that I was watching a television comedy. Segments of the Republican Party are attempting to tell us that the January 6th coup attempt did not actually happen....
NFL’s 2021 Opportunity to Diversify Team Ownership
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.President and CEO, National Newspaper Publishers Association As we approach the 55th NFL Superbowl next Sunday in Tampa, Florida amidst the continued national spread of COVID-19, I believe that the time has come for the close-knit group of team owners in the National Football League (NFL)...
D.C. Must Have Statehood
By Julianne Malveaux The District of Columbia has 715,000 residents, more than the states of Wyoming and Vermont. We pay taxes, just like citizens in all 50 states. But our citizens are second-class citizens. We have no voting representation in the House of Representatives or the United States Senate. We...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING: Was the Insurrection an Inside Job?
By Julianne Malveaux If you watched the disgraceful invasion of the United States Capitol and the horrific destruction that took place on Jan. 6, you observed a legion of limited-intelligence low-life louts. But you’d be mistaken if that’s all you thought of the Trump-incited mob. Those people could not have...
We Were Guinea Pigs for the U.S.: It Isn’t Just Tuskegee
By Julianne Malveaux People who don't know Black history have probably heard more about the Tuskegee syphilis "experiment" in the last month than they have in their whole lives. The chattering class has used the debacle of allowing hundreds of Black men live with untreated syphilis to monitor its effects...
The Biden Cabinet Mainstream, Moderate, Middling
By Julianne Malveaux Julianne Malveaux I neither expected sparks nor extreme surprises as President-elect Joe Biden begin to announce his Cabinet. I did expect diversity, and we've seen it. But I didn't expect the number of Obama-era retreads to be included in this Cabinet. As I write this in mid-December,...
Exhale, Inhale, Roll Your Sleeves Up
It took five days for the 2020 election to be called for former Vice President Joe Biden. Five days with me peeled to the television and the internet. Five days holding my breath. Five days, meditating and praying for strength. I could not imagine four more years of Trump. I...