By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The new NAACP Report Card for the first session of the 112th Congress is out and it shows that every graded Republican member of the House and Senate received an F on issues considered important to the nation’s oldest civil rights group. In the Senate, all 46 GOP senators [...]

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Between the drama surrounding the arrest of George Zimmerman for the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. and the White terrorists who killed two Blacks and injured five others in Tulsa, you may have missed the news about CNN Anchor Don Lemon, an African American, defending journalists [...]

By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief African Americans are more than twice as likely as non-Blacks to believe that if 17-year-old Trayvon Martin had been White, his killer would have been arrested rather than set free, according to a new USAToday/Gallup Poll. Martin was killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, as he was [...]

Complied by Courier Staff and George Curry, NNPA exclusive coverage The story begins with the heartache of a family losing their 17 year-old son, yet it continues to grow and touch countless people across the country. Rev. Al Sharpton was asked to weigh in on why he thought this story is touching some many people. [...]

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Sybrina Fulton knows what she will be doing tomorrow. It is the same thing she did yesterday. And the same thing she will do today. “I cry every day,” she said Sunday on TV One’s Washington Watch with Roland Martin. “I just don’t understand. My son’s gone and this [...]

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist A chapter in the National Urban League’s 2012 State of Black America report reached a sobering conclusion about the Black middle class. “Our analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will clearly establish that whether one looks at education, income or [...]

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist A recent report that New York City Police Department may have spied on Al Sharpton as he prepared to protest the acquittal of three police officers in the 2006 shooting death of Sean Bell brings back memories of a carefullyorchestrated national effort to discredit civil rights leaders, including Dr. [...]

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich launched a nuclear attack on the needy last week by using ugly stereotypes to argue that people are poor because they are lazy and the solution to widespread poverty is scrapping child labor laws and putting poor kids to work in menial jobs. He [...]

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Although automatic cuts in defense spending and domestic programs are scheduled to go into effect as a result of the congressional supercommittee’s failure to reach a budget deal by Wednesday, those reductions are far better than what Republicans on the committee were proposing and Democrats were willing to accept. [...]

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. – Genesis 4:8 In Biblical times, Cain slew Abel. Today, another Cain – Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain – can’t [...]