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Congress Tries to Ban the CFPB from Regulating Payday and Car-title Loans

May 9, 2017 Staff 0
by Charlene Cromwell Since its inception, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has faced an unrelenting onslaught of attacks. From lawmakers, to lobbyists and business organizations, many still maintain that the marketplace should regulate itself, […]
Editorials

Is Social Media Free Speech or a Means to be Freely Ignorant?

May 9, 2017 Staff 0
by Reggie Fullwood So how many of us have been casually strolling through a social media site and saw something so ridiculously troublesome that you just couldn’t believe that it was real? For example, who […]
Business

Switch Up the Tradition – Buy Mom Some Stock this Mother’s Day

May 5, 2017 Staff 0
By Delta Jones-Walker, Gary Crusader She is one of the most celebrated figures in the world. She gives life, and in most cases, puts the needs of others before her own. We affectionately call her […]
Lifestyle

The Long History and Legacy of Passing in America

May 5, 2017 Staff 0
(Illustration by Chris Kindred for The Washington Post) By Alex Laughlin, washingtonpost.com Anita Hemmings was Vassar College’s first African American graduate. But no one was supposed to know that she was black. A light-skinned mixed-race […]
National

Trayvon Martin, Who Dreamt of Being a Pilot, to Receive Honorary Aviation Degree

May 5, 2017 Staff 0
Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012 by a neighborhood watchman. (Photo credit SYBRINA FULTON) By Taryn Finley, huffingtonpost.com An aviation school in Florida is honoring Trayvon Martin with a posthumous degree at its commencement this month. Florida […]
National

Trumpcare Pre-existing Conditions: Pregnancy, Sleep Apnea Could Make You Pay More

May 5, 2017 Staff 0
By Nicole Chavez, CNN Millions of Americans are uncertain about their future as a new health care bill heads to the Senate. The American Health Care Act would shake things up. It could open the […]
Entertainment

Bill Cosby speaks to the Black Press

May 2, 2017 Staff 0
Bill Cosby is blind. It’s been more than two years since the embattled, television and film legend, who was once known as “America’s Dad,” has spoken out publicly. During a recent interview with the NNPA […]
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Sports

The National Urban Professional Baseball League Holding Open Tryouts

May 2, 2017 Staff 0
The National Urban Professional Baseball League (A Replica of Negro League Baseball) will be launching four new Urban Baseball League teams in the spring of 2018. Baseball in our inner-cities is dying and the NUPBL […]
Editorials

Time for Black Fraternities and Sororities to Step Up

April 25, 2017 Staff 0
by James Klingman Remember the scene from “New Jack City” when Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) told Scotty (Ice-T), “This ain’t personal; this is business?” And at the end of the movie, Scotty said to Nino, […]
Editorials

So the “N” Word Does Have Power – To End a Career

April 25, 2017 Staff 0
by Reggie Fullwood I am as guilty as any other Generation X black male – I grew using the word “Nigga” or the “N” word as a term of endearment of sorts. No big deal […]

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