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Yes We Did: Obama Rallies All Americans in Farewell Speech

“Yes, we did!” Those were the words that Barack Hussein Obama ended his farewell speech to America on Tuesday, eight years after he won the presidency, campaigning on the slogan, “Yes, we can!” For nearly an hour, the nation’s 44th

Does nonpartisan journalism have a future?

The nonpartisan model of journalism is built around the norm of covering politics as though both parties are equally guilty of all offenses. The 2016 campaign stressed that model to the breaking point with one candidate – Donald Trump –

Whitelash? Not Exactly—Maybe Not Even Really

In 1976, I took about 30 white working guys who’d never been to college to hear James Baldwin speak at Harvard. The experience launched me on an odyssey whose many twists and turns have given me a few insights into

Why Are So Many of Us Hiding Behind Our Smartphones?

It hit me the other day that there is a new protocol involved in walking down the street. I never really thought of it before, but I suddenly realized that people who text while walking expect that those of us

How Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Affects Families and Communities

When immigration officers forcibly remove individuals from their homes, it impacts the psychological, emotional and economic well-being of their families and communities. President-elect Donald Trump stated throughout his campaign that he wanted to leverage a “deportation force” to deport all

Moving Forward: The Sampson-Duplin Spotlight

The Sampson-Duplin Spotlight made a quiet entry into Sampson and Duplin Counties with its October publication. By doing so, it became the first publication in the counties to publish news from a Black perspective. The community support of the Spotlight

Facebook’s “Ethnic Affinities” Is Digital Racism and It’s Time to End It

Racism is a malignant, powerful, and harmful reality for millions of persons of color throughout the world. Here, inside the United States, racism is institutionalized and we have the evidence that this dreadful, racially discriminatory system of oppression now has

White Identity in Politics and the Rise of Donald Trump

Many political commentators credit Donald Trump’s rise to white voters’ antipathy toward racial and ethnic minorities. However, we believe this focus on racial resentment and white identity obscures another important aspect of racial thinking. In a study of white Americans’ attitudes

We Will Use False Measuring Cups and Fix Our Scales for Cheating!

On Sunday September 21, 2016, the Old Testament reading in my church was from the minor Prophet Amos. The corrupt vendors were preparing for a great day of sales that could enhance or ruin their future. Their master plan was

Republicans Are Willing to Dance with the Devil to Win the White House

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is anticipating a Trump win in November. Or, at least, he is preparing for it. He says that if Republicans hold sway in the White House, the House and the Senate, he plans

Great Faith Ministries International Pastor Responds To Money Accusations

Detroit, MI — After a huge brawl recently broke out inside Great Faith Ministries International, a historically Black church in Detroit, the pastor, Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, is now telling his side of the story. In response to New Era

GDN Publishers Expand Coverage With True Black Perspective on the News

For the first time ever, a five county area in northeastern, North Carolina has a unique source of news from a Black perspective. Greater Diversity News (GDN) and The Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford and Northampton Spotlight (The Spotlight), monthly publications,

Breaking the Cycle: Young Mother of Seven Turns Life Around at McDonald’s

Ten years ago, Cameo Faust, a single mother of seven was working at an Atlanta-area McDonald’s, struggling to make ends meet and highly motivated to make a better life for herself and her family. Now, she’s the general manager, who

Three Things The CFBP Has to Get Right When It Comes to Debt Collection

When it comes to consumer complaints on credit and lending, debt collection generates more criticism than any other industry. This $13 billion industry makes profits by pursuing at least 77 million consumers each year. Many of the aggressive tactics used

Entrepreneur and PhD Student Releases Essential Books for African American Women

Atlanta, GA — The perception of African American women over the past 50 years has taken a peculiar turn. Today, while we watch reality TV shows even local news interviews; we observe women of color that may not necessarily reflect

Consumer Financial Agency Wins Court Case against CashCall

The fight for fair lending got a big boost on August 31 when a federal court rejected a payday loan collector’s attempt to evade consumer laws. The decision against CashCall, a California-based online payday and installment lender, upheld the Consumer

Ask Alma: My Father Refused to Help Me Pay for College

Dear Alma, My parents divorced when I was nine. It was cool, because I spent a lot of time with my father and I got along well with my stepfather. My biological father and I had a great relationship and

Economic Disaster: Moral Origins of Donald Trump’s Improbable Rise to Power

As if to compound the insult to American power represented by the world’s vociferous rejection of the Bush doctrine, the U.S. found itself in 2008 facing the biggest economic disaster since the great recession. The collapse was so stark, so sudden,

What Color Is Homelessness?

A young man stood on a street corner in St. Paul, Minnesota last Sunday. He was holding up a sign describing his plight, “Homeless, hungry, need help.” He was across the street from a church where I was speaking. I

Lame Excuses for Not Voting and an Action Plan for Voting

What We Blacks Need to Do – Not Voting: Why are people not voting: People please do not listen to these depressed people with their lame excuses. I challenge them to put their little granddaughter and grandson, who believe everything they

Five Steps in the March to Civil Rights

Whether patriots disguised as “Indians” or heirs of Attucks at a Woolworth’s lunch counter or drag goddesses marching down Fifth Avenue, the power of disruption has been the overwhelming tool of the otherwise oppressed in their respective marches toward equity

Support the Freedom-Fighting Legacy of George E. Curry in the Black Press

George Curry was our beloved Editor-In-Chief of the NNPA News Wire Service and after decades of outstanding contributions and service to the Black Press in America, George evolved to be admired by fellow journalists as the “Dean of Black Press

Trump Supporters Think They’re on a Reality Show

Trump supporters … There is something that I have found particularly odd in this election season and there have been many things that have been odd. There have been consistent media reports of interviews with supporters of Republican nominee Donald

Enhancing Black-Owned Newspapers in the Age of Social Media

Black-owned newspapers are not opposed to the digitalization of our content or to the digital distribution of the trusted, vibrant, prophetic voice of the Black Press of America. In fact, as black-owned media companies, it makes good business sense for

Radicals in the Democratic Party, from Upton Sinclair to Bernie Sanders

As we watch Bernie Sanders’ supporters struggling to come to terms with the nomination of Hillary Clinton, it makes sense to ask why leftists are involved in the Democratic Party in the first place. It started in 1934 when Upton

Project JumpStart – Intellectual Honesty about Race and Criminal Justice System Reform

Today, across America, we urgently need more intellectual honesty about race and criminal justice system reform. There is an old adage that posits “The more things appear to change, the more they stay the same.” Once again, millions of Americans

Anti-Gun: Dallas Tragedy Debunks Every Gun Control Myth

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Marc Morial says that the background check database for gun purchases must be complete, and the types of incidents that warrant anti-gun prohibition must be thoroughly examined. Anti-gun and anti-violence: “We can’t tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change. We will be told that the causes

Redefining Racism by Reexamining Jeffersonian Democracy

As America celebrated 240-years of “democracy” on July 4, 2016, the longstanding tradition of hero-worshiping Thomas Jefferson continued. Meanwhile, as the slaughter of Black people continues in parallel tradition, America tends to disassociate the 18th-century racism and violence of its

Senator Warren Calls Out 21st Century Digital Robber Barons

During a recent speech on competition and the American economy, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who some politicos consider to be in the running for the Democratic “veepstakes,” took aim at the growing concentration of power and wealth in Silicon

Deconstructing Reconstruction in the Aftermath of Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights and Dallas

(NNPA) – After Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Falcon Heights, Minnesota there was Dallas, Texas. After rogue cops unceremoniously killed two black men, a deranged shooter killed five police officers. The shooter, identified as Micah Johnson, reportedly said that he wanted

My White Male Privilege Is Complicit in Black Male Killings

I am the outward embodiment of privilege. A 39 year old heterosexual white man. A six foot tall lawyer with no physical impairments living on a safe street with my white lawyer wife and our two kids in a safe

Independence Day for Us Progressives Is Nov. 8

WHAT WE BLACKS NEED TO DO PROBLEM: The extreme conservatives developed a master plan to water down the constitutional rights of blacks, poor whites, young people, women, LGBT and other minorities. Their strategy was to throw three of the most

The Difference Between Jesse Williams’ BET Speech and What Comes Next

(NNPA) More than a couple of million folks have responded to the words spoken by Jesse Williams, which points out the fact that many Black people are mesmerized by words that excite us and stimulate our emotions. Rather than initiating

Best Buys for Your Travel Buck

(NNPA) – If you’re like me, you want a lot more simplicity in your life. So I am constantly on the lookout for great ideas, products and gadgets that can help me pare down, reduce stress and travel smarter and

African American and Latino Digital Innovators

(NNPA) That seems glib. But truth comes best in a simple package. The digital divide is real. Millions of brilliant, creative thinkers are still left behind, because they don’t have affordable access to the Internet. So what can we do to

Beware of Donald Trump!

The United States of America is the greatest country in the world. It has been since 1492, in spite of its growing pains over the centuries, and has continued to grow and progress to this day. Our political system of

Survivor of Orlando Massacre Says Shooter Asked, “Are There Any Black People in Here?”

Patience Carter, one of the victims who survived the massacre at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, says that while trapped in the bathroom with the shooter, Omar Mateen, he asked if there were any Black people in the club. After

How We Must Face the Rise of the Radical Right

One thing is clear: millennials – those born after 1980 – are the world’s future, and they’ve already made significant contributions. Social media alone wouldn’t be what it is today without millennial entrepreneurs, for example. “It’s not just technology defining

This Is Why Republicans Continue to Lose the Black Vote

(NNPA) Those who have followed my writings know that I have been and will continue to be very critical of my Republican Party over the lack of real engagement with the Black community. I am now beginning to question whether

Harriet Tubman: Economic Freedom Fighter

(NNPA) – When Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced that Harriet Tubman would grace the new $20 bill, my heart sang hallelujah. Additional changes to the currency were also announced. The back of the $10 bill will now recognize the five

The Good Faith Illusion: Searching for Economic Justice

The more I investigate the status of economic justice in public spending the clearer the horror of economic exclusion becomes. Once I was reminded that the objective of equity in public spending had been addressed in NCGS § 143-128.2, Minority

Why Register? Why Vote? Economic Justice

This article is a continuation of our focus on the influence of politics on economic justice. However, I would be remiss in my coverage of voter suppression if I fail to make observations about duplicity in the treatment of voting

Unfinished Business of NCGS § 143-128.2: Goals, Fair Share & Good Faith

Our readers know that over the past several months we’ve focused our articles on the economics of politics, voter engagement and the lack of fair and equitable spending when it comes to public bodies. I’m continuing this focus by touching

Left Out of the Economy: Will Blacks Vote?

The American economic system is not working for far too many Black voters and communities. This reality is going to cause a major drag on voter participation come November, as has too often been the case in the past. And

The Economics of Politics: Voters of Color Seek Fair Share

Now that the Primary Elections have come and gone, for the most part, all eyes have turned to the November General Elections. In the past I’ve written about Donald Trump, Birtherism, the KKK and the Grand Old Party (GOP). This

The KKK, Birtherism, and the GOP: You Can’t Ignore History

First things first; Tuesday, March 15th is Election Day in North Carolina. As responsible citizens we should understand that “Black Lives Matter” and that the aspirations of generations of people of color are always on the ballot. Not voting is

Branding America’s GOP: Birtherism, Voter Suppression and the KKK

The Republican talking class is expressing shock and horror that Donald Trump “Birther in Chief” has become the face and standard of their party. Their anxiety seems to revolve around the fact that their party is home to hate groups,

The Die Is Cast: Elected Officials Reject Economic Exclusion

On Monday, February 1, 2016, Pitt County Board of Education officials served notice, to all that care, that the economic exclusion of communities and people of color is totally unacceptable. Board members, the Honorable Mary Blount-Williams and the Honorable Mildred

Beyond the Rhetoric: Filthy Rich and Dangerous

My early days of being an activist seem so simple now. A hot head reporter or radio personality would challenge my actions and I would simply shut him/her down with my quips and verbal jockeying. An IRS series of audits,

Call to Action: Triangle Voter Rights Forum & GOTV Rally

Efforts to protect and expand voting rights in North Carolina continue to gain strength. Details of our third forum, the Triangle Voters Right Forum and Get Out The Voter (GOTV) Rally are being finalized for ongoing announcements. We are pleased

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