The nation's overcrowded correctional facilities lack the resources, training or medicine to properly treat inmates needing mental health treatment.

NNPA Special Commentary

Jade is one of thousands of children from New Orleans and the surrounding areas for whom life is still not back to normal four years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. Even though significant strides toward recovery have been made, for many residents there is still a long way to go ...

Senator Edward M. Kennedy was a voice for the voiceless. He was passionate about health care, about children, about education. He understood poverty and often spoke of it. It begs a cliché to say that he will be missed. More importantly, who in the Senate will give voice to the voiceless? 

There exists a word in the American English language that on its own incites such a reaction that it may as well be taboo. It isn't a curse word nor a derogatory term, but rather a simple four-letter concept that by and large encapsulates the crux of many of our problems as a nation ...

Speaking recently at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Conference, President Barack Obama reportedly said in regard to the war in Afghanistan: "…. This is not a war of choice, this is a war of necessity ". Wrong! It was a war of choice when former President George Bush launched it in 2001; it remains a war of choice for President Obama ....

During the campaign of President Obama, I was leery about his fierce intension to pursuit Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan to the point that he would engage in a war against the Taliban. Yet, I felt, like most people, that it was a righteous objective, since it was aimed at atonement for the 3,000 people ruthlessly killed by Al Qaeda operatives at the New York World Trade Center bombing in 2001 ...

After years of heartbreak and disappointment, Troy Davis is finally getting a chance to have evidence heard in his case after being denied a fair trial since he was arrested almost two decades ago.  
It should never have taken the American justice system this long to act.  ...

Throughout the month of August, defenders of the healthcare status quo have assailed efforts to reform a system in crisis. They have raised any number of spurious claims ranging from the absurd to the macabre in a desperate attempt to stand between 47 million uninsured Americans and their doctors. But the debate over reforming America's broken healthcare system ...

But some so-called animal rights hypocrites remain critical of Vick while refusing to challenge state laws that provide licenses to those who hunt deer and other innocent animals. And the "animal rights" groups are not the only cowards.