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In our best interests

She chose the wrong side. Actually, she tried to play both sides and lost. Mary Landrieu has grown into a typical Louisiana politician. That is

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Obama as a prefix

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The right wing seems determined to associate President Obama with any government program that helps people on the bottom. Thus the

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Political maneuvering over the budget
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist There has been much discussion about the big picture items in President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal 2014. If the devil is in the details, as ...
The Hard Truth — Kojo’s little birthday wish, Part II
By Min. J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Writer Last time we started a discussion of what I wanted for my birthday, which was the 19th of this month. I said that if the ...
The shifting sands of sequestration
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Sequestration is like the sand in an hour glass. When the sand starts falling, it does not seem to amount to much. The full ...
Uncle Tom’s children
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor When most people think about Uncle Tom, a character made popular in the Harriet Beecher Stowe antebellum novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, we think of an elderly, nonthreatening ...
‘No one can change the change’
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. Contributing Columnist The state of equality and justice in America is shameful—especially since the election of President Barack Obama. Unlike many of my friends who think ...
Obama breaks Social Security pledge
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Even before President Obama released his budget proposal this week for the next fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, preliminary details about his plan to effectively ...
Watch your mouth
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” ...
Black voters are back in style
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist The push for the Black vote is on. Black folks are back in style. Black is beautiful—again. Since the last election, the mantra has become, ...

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