As the clock counts down to Gov. Beverly Perdue’s decision whether to grant pardons of innocence to all of the Wilmington Ten – and we certainly hope she does – we’ve been noticing something expected, yet peculiar. ...

After we savor the feeling of sweet success that comes from President Barack Obama’s election, there is work to do. ...

In spite of North Carolina being the only battleground state not to vote for him this election, President Barack Obama ran the table Tuesday evening, and made history by becoming the only AfricanAmerican in history to be re-elected president of the United States. ...

The U.S. Census Bureau’s new poverty data for the states show millions of families struggling mightily to keep their heads above water in the wake of the Great Recession. Fourteen states saw statistically significant increases in their child poverty rates, 26 states saw small increases, and nine states and the District of Columbia saw small declines in child poverty rates last year. ...

When I was in the process of reading and writing about Nielsen and the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s report on African-American buying power for this week’s Black newspapers, I was reminded of how many top companies continue to take advantage of Black consumers while providing little, if anything, in return. ...

One of the main themes in the political conventions was centered on how hard it was for the speakers’ families, their parents and grandparents, and how they struggled to make it. ...

Next year this nation will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington on August 28, 2013. ...

The response from the Obama Campaign managers to NNPA Chairman, Cloves Campbell was; “The audience your newspapers reach is not the demographic of the campaign”. ...

It is truly sad, indeed, that Connie Tindall, 62, will be laid to rest tomorrow, never seeing what he wanted more than anything else -- having his name cleared by the state of North Carolina for crimes he did not commit as a member of the Wilmington Ten ...

I first heard about fracking (the drilling of natural-gas wells using a method known as hydraulic fracturing) in 2009 when environmental advocates charged that natural-gas drilling could endanger New York City's water resources. ...