The State of the State: Special Guest Speaker Assemblymember Anthony Portantino NATHA invites everyone to join us in our first annual Community Town Hall and Open House 2010. It will provide residents with an opportunity to meet their neighbors, to find ...

Pastor Milton R. Butler of Deliverance Christian Church has stepped down as pastor and is currently serving as Pastor Emeritus of Deliverance Christian Church.  Pastor Butler, a dedicated man of God, devoted husband, father, grandfather, godfather, a...

1994, Jawanza Kunjufu, in his work Adam! Where Are You?: Why Most Black Men Don’t Go to Church (African American Images Publishers), raised a number of issues concerning the dearth of Black male attendance at church services across the country. In light...

Pete Carroll has left The Trojan Nation to take a more lucrative position as the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football league. Many loyal Trojan fans are distraught, and they are very concerned about the future of the football team. ...

The following is a response to an article in Black Voices: “Rev. Jesse Jackson protests home foreclosures and Church’s problems with mortgage lenders.” I said to a group of pastors years ago that they should have a business directory for their membe...

Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated his life to a dream of equality.  He dreamed of a day when “little black boys and black girls would be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”Although Dr. King is no lon...

National Service Agency Calls for a “Day On, Not a Day Off” Washington, DC— With the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service just days away, the Corporation for National and Community Service is urging Americans to honor Dr. King’s memory and furth...

Guilt by association is foreign to our country's legal traditions. Individuals are responsible for their own actions, not for the actions of their friends or associates. Nevertheless, in bringing 21 defendants (But Not Limited To does 1 - 200)  of th...

(NNPA) - For 13 years, Ed Jackson has been steeped in a struggle to make a dream come true. He is chief architect for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the Northeast side of the Tidal Basin lining up with the Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson memo...

WASHINGTON (NNPA) - On Nov. 3, 2008, an important telephone conference was held in Black America. That was the day that then candidate Barack Obama, on the eve of his historic election to the presidency, promised African-American leaders and representativ...

My last column addressed the usefulness of a Power of Attorney when a person becomes disabled. A Power of Attorney allows you to designate another person (an “agent”) to handle your financial transactions for you should you become incapable of handlin...

Local writer Cameron Turner, whose provocative column, "Turner's Two Cents," appears regularly in the Journal, will share his opinions on KNBC Channel 4 as a contributor to the dynamic news and discussion ...

President Obama inherited a house with a leaking roof, eaten up by termites. Let’s give him a chance to repair it. Blacks need to stop attacking President Obama regarding the joblessness of Blacks. The employment status of Blacks did not just get bad si...

In the rapidly growing field of the green environment, The D’Veal Corporation and Leadership Green Works has taken on a role as facilitators to implement a training program in green technology. ...

The feedback from readers of this writing from last January was such that I've decided to offer it as a start to the dawning of yet  another new year for us as many a believer is poised to roll up their proverbial sleeves and get busy with a declared...

At its height, the renaissance movement in Black America was taking root throughout the nation’s inter cities; what began in Harlem, New York, and mirrored in such cities as Chicago and Los Angeles, alike, the rise and visibility of Black culture, pride...

AN ABSOLUTELY PERFECT DAY OF ROSES! I was awestruck at the beauty of the Rose Parade. Did we ever have a more perfect day? The floats were spectacular, and the marching bands were ...

If any of us were forced to live in a desert we'd probably find trying to survive in a barren, desolate wasteland difficult. But through a series of public policies and private sector decisions, millions of mostly low-income and minority families in Ameri...

Now that we have ushered in not only a new year, but a new decade, I want to share my New Decade’s wish list. I hope:PRESIDENT   OBAMA stops gutting his domestic programs in an effort to appease Republicans who have no intention of supporting ...

For more than 65 years the Tuskegee Airmen have been on a crusade to be acknowledged as significant figures in American history.  Amidst a picture perfect day, before hundreds of thousands of spectators, and millions ...