MPS must set timetable to decrease school busing

The Milwaukee Public School Board last week unanimously agreed to reduce massive busing in the school district. However ... Read more

The Drop-Out Crisis

by Marc H. Morial--NNPA Columnist
"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough." Mary McLeod Bethune, 1875-1955. I participated in a conference organized by General Colin Powell in Washington, D.C. earlier this month and learned that every 26 seconds, one American high school student drops out of school--that’s over 3,000 youth per day; nearly 10,000 youth each month; or 1.1 million young people a year. ... Read more

New NAMI program for Black families works to erase stigma of mental illnes

by Leslie Johnson
While African Americans make up only 11-to-12 percent of the nation’s population, they account for approximately 25% of ... Read more

Vote Demographics spells much bigger trouble for Obama than Pennsylvania loss

by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Barack Obama’s decisive Pennsylvania loss to Hillary Clinton was predictable and inevitable. Obama pretty much confirmed that when he tossed in the towel and spent the ... Read more

Hillary Clinton is ‘majoring in the minor’

by George E. Curry, NNPA Columnist
With only nine remaining contests and no mathematical chance of overtaking the frontrunner, Hillary Clinton continues to, as Jesse Jackson puts it, major in the minor. In other words, instead of addressing the big picture, she is engaged in insignificant sideshows. Clinton’s most notable example of this is her trying to depict Barack Obama as an elitist. It’s almost comical that a United States senator who graduated from the ... Read more