Opinion

Special to Speakin’ Out News Latoyia Clemons has been selected as Southern University Alumni 40 Under Forty Cohort Deux. Latoyia will join 39 other graduates for an Awards Gala on October 31st in Baton Rouge, […]

By Washington Informer, Web Staff Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, widow of Rep. Elijah Cummings, is expected to run for her husband’s House seat, according to a Fox News report. Cummings, who was up for reelection in […]

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Atatiana Koquice Jefferson (pictured), 28, was fatally shot by an unidentified white police officer inside her home on Saturday morning, October 12, 2019.  The Fort Worth Police slaying of name Atatiana […]

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The symbiotic nature of debates and public opinion polls was on full display this week in Ohio, stated Krista Jenkins, a political science professor at Farleigh Dickinson […]

By Ron Rice, Senior Director, Government Relations at the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools Ron Rice Jr. is a former two term Newark, NJ city councilman, chief advisor to the New Jersey Department of […]

By Derrick Johnson, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson On June 19, 1865, Texan slaves found out they were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, two and a half years after it was issued by President […]

By Reggie McKenzie The Original Hot Dog Factory announced that they are currently offering franchise opportunities to qualified candidates in the U.S., effective today. Qualified applicants who are awarded the opportunity to own and operate […]

By Earl Hutchinson political analyst Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered more than a half century ago in Memphis. Then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover has been dead almost a half century. Yet, one […]

By Charlene Crowell, NNPA Newswire Contributor If you’re like me, every time you hear a news reporter or anchor talk about how great the nation’s economy is, you wonder what world they are living in. […]

By Bill Fletcher, Jr., NNPA Newswire Contributor If there had been any question about Russian interference in the 2016 election, that is now a settled matter in light of the Mueller Report. Whether that interference […]