Dr. King Left us With a Charge: To Honor All God's Children

What will you do for our children?

2011-10-14

BY Gail C. Christopher, DN

Forty-three-years after the March on Washington, Dr. King’s dream of equality for all remains unrealized – the impact of racism persists and children of color still live with the consequences of the racial divide embedded in American society. Read the complete article

Black and Broke: One in Three African Americans are Struggling with No Employment in Sight

2011-10-13

Julianne Malveaux, NNPA columnist

We want to know what’s up with the unemployment rate, and with the changes that have taken place in the last month. Last week, our nation learned that we treaded water. The unemployment rate remained at a high of 9.1 percent, 8 percent for white folks, and 16 percent for Black folks. Read the complete article

Afro Latinos are Everywhere Yet are Invisible in our Black and White Culture

Struggles with self-image, assimilation mirror Black American experience

2011-10-10

By Cynthia Griffin Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly

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The Obama Administration is Hurting Black Businesses

Where's the Congressional Black Congress when they are needed?

2011-10-10

Harry Alford President and CEO of the Black Chamber of Commerce

This administration is killing us and it is time for the Congressional Black Caucus and all Black concerned associations and citizens to say “enough”.   Read the complete article

Obama Speech Criticism Is Much Ado About Nuttin’

Black America must focus on the substance of president’s words, not his inflection

2011-10-07

Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist

In the wake of President Obama’s address to the Congressional Black Caucus, there are those who are making much ado about nothing, including the accusation that, by dropping his “g’s” the President was talking down to African Americans.  Can this President kindly get a break! Read the complete article

Herman Cain Is Brainwashed—and Brain Dead

History of Black voting shows constituents support whatever side supports them

2011-10-04

George E. Curry NNPA Columnist

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain professes to know why most African Americans don’t vote for Republicans – they are brainwashed.  Cain’s decision to insult people he hopes will vote for him proves that he is both brainwashed and brain dead. Read the complete article

Re: Saltzman Has Stern Words for New Equity Office: ‘I'll Be Watching Very Closely’

My concern when I heard Commissioner Saltzman suddenly remind us that he's watching was, what had he been doing the other times?

2011-09-29

Sharon Gary-Smith, Guest Commentary

I'm pleased, in fact, excited really, that our long-serving City Commissioner Saltzman, has now declared that he's going to 'watch very closely' the expenditures from city coffers. It's about time, and too bad, only occurred on Sept. 21, at the Portland City Council's historic vote on equity. Read the complete article

Why Obama Couldn’t Prevent the Troy Davis Execution

Presidential statements would have carried no legal authority—but plenty of political peril

2011-09-28

From the instant the Georgia Parole Board denied clemency to Troy Anthony Davis, the quiet murmurs grew to a crescendo in some quarters that President Obama should have stepped in to block the Davis execution. Read the complete article

OPAL's Campaign for a Fair Transfer: Taking It to the TriMet Board

The regional agency in charge of our public transit system -- TriMet -- has reduced service to the lowest levels per capita since 1975, when it was just getting off the ground

2011-09-27

Rev. Joseph Santos-Lyons, co-director, OPAL

We hear it so often these days that we don’t even bother to stop and think about it anymore: Portland is the most sustainable city in America, and the hallmark of our green city is its world class transportation system, replete with modern MAX trains, shiny streetcars and lots and lots of eco-friendly bicycles. But a closer look at the numbers reveals a starkly different reality. Read the complete article

Re: Saltzman Has Stern Words for New Equity Office: ‘I'll Be Watching Very Closely’

'My concern when I heard Commissioner Saltzman suddenly remind us that he's watching was, what had he been doing the other times?'

2011-09-26

Sharon Gary-Smith, Guest Columnist

I'm pleased, in fact, excited really, that our long-serving City Commissioner Saltzman, has now declared that he's going to 'watch very closely' the expenditures from city coffers. It's about time, and too bad, only occurred on Sept. 21, at the Portland City Council's historic vote on equity. Read the complete article