Category: Opinion
OP-ED: Omarosa Is Not Your Dog, Trump
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) I am no fan of Omarosa Manigault Newman, the mononymous diva who dominates the airwaves whenever she wants to. Her new book, “Unhinged,” which I won’t read, is billed as a tell-all on “45’s” White House and its shenanigans. In making the rounds, “Omierosie” (my nickname for her) has…
OP-ED: America’s Teachers Need More Community, Parental Support
By Dr. Elizabeth Primas (Program Manager, NNPA ESSA Public Awareness Campaign) The latest data from the Center for American Progress shows that the average salary for an attorney is more than two times that of elementary and middle school educators. The Washington Post reported last week that nearly 1 in 10 hosts who rent out…
OP-ED: This Is Why Migrant Parents Travel with Children
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. (NNPA Newswire Columnist) There has been a strange response by many White conservatives to the separation of migrant children from their parents. Whether we are discussing undocumented migrants or those requesting asylum, there has been rightwing pushback to the larger chorus of condemnation of the Trump administration for its zero tolerance….
OP-ED: Another Assault on the Black Press Black Newspaper Publishers Take a Hit with Trump’s Tariffs on Canadian Newsprint
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (President and CEO, NNPA) Amid the rush to comprehend the ramifications of a full-scale international trade war initiated by the errant and backward tariff policies of the Trump Administration, there are results of the tariffs that need to be challenged by Black America. The financial sustainability of the Black…
OP-ED: Our Children Are at Risk
By Kay Coles James (President, The Heritage Foundation) I’m sure President Obama’s heart was in the right place. A few years ago, his Department of Education, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, studied school discipline data and came to a troubling conclusion: African American students in the 2011-12 school year had been suspended or…
OP-ED: Black Mamas Are Dying. We Can Stop It.
By Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) Black mothers are dying and it’s time to do something about it. Every year, more than 700 American mothers lose their lives to pregnancy or birth-related complications. Some medical professionals estimate that at least half, if not more, of these deaths are entirely preventable. While the deaths of 700-plus American…
COMMENTARY: Teachers are Organizing, but what about teachers’ unions?
By Bruce Fuller, Opinion Contributor/NNPA/ESSA Bruce Fuller, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, works on how schools and civic activists push to advance pluralistic communities. He is a regular opinion contributor to edweek.org where he trades views with Lance Izumi, on the other side of the political aisle. This blossoming spring of teacher…
COMMENTARY: We need to revive King’s campaign against poverty
By Jesse Jackson April 4 will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, shot down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. At the time, we had come to Memphis to support striking sanitation workers seeking a living wage and a union. Dr. King was focused on…
COMMENTARY: When It Comes to ‘Dreamers,’ Schools Have a Trump Problem – Education Week By Bruce Fuller, Opinion Contributor
The future of DACA remains uncertain, but students are stepping up By Bruce Fuller NNPA ESSA Newswire Bruce Fuller, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, works on how schools and civic activists push to advance pluralistic communities. He is a regular opinion contributor to edweek.org where he trades views with Lance Izumi, on…
Witness For Justice #886 Commentary: HIV Criminalization Is a Barrier to Ending the HIV Epidemic
Michael Schuenemeyer Executive for Health and Wholeness Advocacy Laws that criminalize HIV are a barrier to ending the HIV epidemic in the United States. That may be surprising to some, because in the thirty plus states and two territories that have such laws, they were intended to be a deterrent to HIV transmission. The results…
Witness For Justice #885 Commentary: The Snake: Anti-Immigrant Propaganda Used to Dehumanize Our Neighbors
Jason Carson Wilson Justice and Peace Fellow Our government separated a Congolese woman from her 7-year-old daughter. The Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained and separated them at the California-Mexico border. The woman was released March 6, but the litle girl remains in ICE custody in Chicago. Confronted with this particular travesty a…
OPINION: The Power Rising Conference Featured the Best and Brightest in Black Women Leadership
By Julianne Malveaux (NNPA Newswire Columnist) All too often, our “history” month turns into a tribute to the past. And while the past is an important place to lift up it is, indeed, a tributary, a stream that flows into the larger stream of an unbounded future. The future must always be greater than the…
OPINION: How My Grandparents Taught Me to Love Myself
By Lynette Monroe (Program Assistant, NNPA/ESSA Public Awareness Campaign) I don’t remember my grandparents assisting me with homework beyond holding up flash cards for me to recite. They could have, I just don’t remember. I do remember Lil’ Bow Wow’s release of “Beware of Dog” in 2000 followed by my incessant pleading to hang his…
OPINION: THE STUDENT LOAN DEBT CRISIS IS A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE
By Wade Henderson (Founding Board Member, Center for Responsible Lending) From attacks on voting rights to police killings of unarmed civilians and growing inequities in earnings and wealth, the civil rights gains of the past six decades are facing threat after threat. But one front in the fight for full equality—meaningful access to higher education—is…
