Redford, MI (BlackNews.com) — For more than 30 years, Dr. Paula Watkins has spent her professional career focusing on improving the student achievement gap in the core academic areas
By James Clingman NNPA News Wire Columnist Again, this is not an attempt to proselytize or to shape your thinking regarding religion or spirituality. Rather, this is an
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist There is no debate concerning the irrefutable fact that The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of
My Day By Dr. J. Ester Davis Just look at these gas prices! Let’s celebrate. Perfect timing. Airlines will prosper, employment will go up. A bump in sales,
At 76 years old, Merri Dee’s life reads a bit like a Hollywood screenplay: love, loss, intrigue. She was a local television star with 43 years in Chicago
Busy clinicians set personal fitness, health goals DALLAS — We all know the drill. Holiday overindulgence in cookies, cakes and confections, followed by New Year’s resolutions to lose
By James Clingman NNPA News Wire Columnist Is it possible to have a Black consciousness and be a Christian? Are the terms contradictory? Is “Conscious Christian” an oxymoron?
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA News Wire Columnist Whenever we begin a new calendar year, it can be useful to make New Year’s Resolutions to prioritize and
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA News Wire Columnist Three years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut where a lone 20-year-old gunman wielding an assault
