December 2016 Archive

ALFRED "UGANDA" ROBERTS and JOHNNY VIDACOVICH
Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard jingles with holiday activities
By Geraldine Wykcoff Contributing Writer From Thursday through Saturday, Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard will be jumping with activities of all sorts. The three days represent a something for everybody cornucopia of music, ...
Why mainstream media loves Marv Albert and hates Bill Cosby
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Last week, I was watching some NBA games on TNT and one of the game’s announcers was famed broadcaster Marv Albert. He is considered by many ...
‘Ethnic Affinities’ is digital racism
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA 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 ...
None of us are safe
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor I was struck last week by the words of Pastor Tom Watson of Watson Teaching Ministries who told WWL News in a story about the Nov. ...
No ma’am, Trump does not deserve a chance
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Newswire Columnist I was sitting at a Starbucks trying to mind my own business and right next to me two individuals were discussing the aftermath of ...
Endorsements for the December 10 run-off election
It’s Trump’s America, we’re being told, and with Christmas looming, so many voters could just choose to stay home out of frustration. Our editors ask, how did that work ...
Nominations are calculated insult
By Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist President-elect Donald Trump protests that he isn’t really the racist, sexist, anti-immigrant Islamaphobe that his rhetorical excesses in the presidential campaign suggested he ...

« Previous Page