Category: EDITORIALS

The new session of Congress provides an exciting opportunity to renew the focus on resolving the numerous challenges we face in our Congressional district, and in our nation.

By NICOLE JAMES SCOTT Texas Publishers Association After conducting a disparity study in 2009, the Texas Comptroller’s office concluded special programs to secure procurement for Historically Underutilized Businesses

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin

Now that the New Year has rolled in, you may be wondering what to do next with your life. Some of us made New Year resolutions and we

ROSA LEE STARNES was recognized by the Senate of the State of Texas on Dec. 2, the occasion of her 100th birthday. Born Dec. 2, 1914 in Upshur County, she

By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The 2015 Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday should have a different impact on the collective consciousness of Black America. Why?

Psalm 84 has been labeled as a pilgrim psalm – one that depicts the yearning of a pilgrim whose passion was to dwell in God’s house.  There ought

Some years ago, a retired military officer was looking forward to a vacation on the famous train ride from San Francisco through Oregon to Seattle.  Amtrak used to

By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson The  new highly acclaimed  motion picture ”Selma” suggests that former President Lyndon Baines Johnson was not an ardent supporter of the Voting Rights

In the mid-1900s Des Moines, Iowa was where she had high hopes of settling, until a bishop with the black Methodist church shared his harsh feelings striping away