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To Be Equal: America’s reading crisis demands more than concern. It demands action.

by Marc Morial (TriceEdneyWire.com)—New York City’s troubling decline in reading scores, despite one of the most ambitious literacy reform efforts in the nation, is a wakeup...

We fought to learn to read. Are we now choosing not to?

by Steven Ragsdale Our ancestors fought for the right to read. Today, with books competing against screens and artificial intelligence, we risk losing more than...

David Marshall: Black women, the last line of defense

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—It would be an understatement to simply say that our nation, both domestically and on the world stage, is in trouble. The United States...

Fred Logan: Chasing Trane in Pittsburgh

The late Pete Henderson was one of Pittsburgh’s premiere hard bop jazz musicians. Pete told me that during a Crawford Grill matinee in Pittsburgh’s...

Urgency to decrease energy power bills

by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE —Every month, mothers in Southeast Washington, DC, as well as other mothers from across the nation, open...

Guest Editorial: NABJ was right to hold Stephen A. Smith accountable

The National Association of Black Journalists was right to give sports and political commentator Stephen A. Smith a “Thumbs Down” award at its annual...

E. Faye Williams: The Dolly Parton some never knew

(TriceEdneyWire.com)—We’ve lost a lot of people who did work we didn’t know about. In the last few days, we lost Dolly Parton. How many...

J. Pharoah Doss: The race realist, the plagiarist, and the irreversible damage

This tragedy begins with two scholars, one White and the other Black, hired a year apart at the University of Cambridge in England. The White...

Bill Cosby Fell. Did Black America Have to Erase Him?

by Stacy M. Brown Senior Global Correspondent Black Press Media USA An old photograph of Bill Cosby is worth studying now. Not the mug shot. Not the courthouse...

Robert Hill: Kiya and Mike Tomlin are Pittsburgh People

On the selected date to welcome to Pittsburgh the new Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin and his family, University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark...

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