George E. Curry is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service and BlackPressUSA.com. His weekly column is syndicated by NNPA to more than 200 African-American newspapers, with a combined readership of 15 million.

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McCain Seeks to Ban Affirmative Action in Arizona

Don't underestimate the role community plays in education

Jesse Jackson Not the Only One Going Nuts

This election season, follow the candidates on the high road

Jesse Helms as a Racist to the End

How Barack Obama Can Beat John McCain

Was Tim Russert really as balanced as they say?

Both McCain and Obama Flip-Floped on Public Financing

John McCain Gets Free Ride from Media

When it comes to civil rights, McCain has some explaining to do

Bob Johnson is on the Wrong Side of History

NAACP Process Rankles its Board

It’s Time to Stop Playing Ball with ‘Billary’ Clinton

Assassination is a Sensitive Topic for Many

The Crazy Actions of James Bevel

New Ideas Needed to Invigorate the NAACP

It's way past time to clean filth of some music videos from TV

Media Gives McCain’s a Pass on his ‘Minister’ Problem

The 2d Housing Crisis

Race Still Matters in Presidential Politics

Hillary Clinton ‘Majoring in the Minor’

Continuing Relevance of Affirmative Action

'Slick Hillary' Does Not Separate Church and State

What Rev. Jeremiah Wright Really Said

Racial Divides Remain, so Let's Talk - and Listen

It’s Time for Hillary Clinton to Quit

Hillary Clinton not Ready for that ‘3 a.m. call’

How Racial Controversy Engulfed a Black Church

Ferraro and Steinem: White Women Gone Wild

Commemorating the Selma-to-Montgomery March

Looking for the NAACP's Next Leader

Obama-Farrakhan: Guilt by Disassociation

Clinton's negative advertising gets a negative result at polls

Fox TV: The O’Racist Factor

A Trip Along the Civil Rights Trail

Officials Maneuvering to Steal Election from Obama

Obama Wins in a New South

A Big Mistake Omitting Floyd Little

Bill Clinton: Pimp Daddy President

Now's Time to Focus on Dr. King and his Nightmare

Surrogates Engage in Slash and Burn Politics

Clintons Playing the Race Card

Voters Focusing on Ideas, not Race

James Brown: One Year Later

The Poor are Targets Again

CBC Offers Partial Solution for Jena 6

‘The Great Debaters’ Honors Black Oral Tradition

Homicide Economics

A Split Among The Jena 6

The Drug War on African-Americans

Disparate Views of Racial Divide

HIV/AIDS Still Devastates Black America

Just Getting Tough

Gerald Boyd: One Year Later

Barack Obama: Whites’ Great Hope?

The Exit of Black CEOs

Calling Nooses What They Are -- Terrorism

A Time to Return to Jena

Giving Back to Black Colleges

Making Sense Out of the Jena Nonsense

Isiah Thomas Fouls Out

Physicians can be Dead Wrong

White Supremacists Issue Jena 6 Death Threats

Jena 6: Too Early to Celebrate

Connecting with Family History

Michael Vick Let the Dogs Out

‘Billary’ Clinton is Condescending to Blacks

A Revealing Look at Bob Johnson

SCLC: No Post-Civil Rights Movement

The Urban League’s Presidential Forum

Clarence Thomas: a Lost Cause – Part II

Clarence Thomas: a Lost Cause – Part I

Hunger in America

The Death of Integration

Deseg Ruling Expected to Continue a Troubling Trend

Black Journalists Fill ‘Missing Pages’

Running a Numbers Game on Black America

Banks Need to Deposit More in our Community

‘Serial’ Education Plan Needed for Blacks

Jerry Falwell’s Racist Past

Will Blacks and Whites Ever Agree on Race?

On Poverty, Candidates Should Follow Their Followers

New Book Unmasks Clarence Thomas

C. DeLores Tucker’s Fight Against Offensive Lyrics

Talk Show Hosts Didn’t Call Anna Nicole Smith a ‘Ho’

Basketball Players are not ‘Nappy-headed Ho’s’

Major League Baseball is ‘Outsourcing’ Black Players

Ray Nagin Should Stop Being a Wimp

Life has Deteriorated in Iraq Since U.S. Invasion

A Painful Journey to See W.E. B. DuBois

Where were Barrack and Hillary before ‘Bloody Sunday’ Observance?

Demolishing Buildings – But Not Memories

Idaho’s Hidden Beauty

International Respect for the Black Struggle

A Super Ending for the Super Bowl

Apologizing for Slavery Isn’t Enough

More than Diversity Needed in Presidential Politics

Hoping for a Chicago-Indianapolis Super Bowl

Democrats Forced to Shake Up ‘Safe’ Agenda

Former President – A Ford, not a Lincoln

James Brown: The Superstars' Superstar

Media Honeymoon Ends for Barack Hussein Obama

Democrats’ Toughest Opponent May be Democrats

No Right to Dishonor the Past

Gerald Boyd Deserves a Better Send-Off

Trent Lott: Record of a Racist

Is Affirmative Action Dead?

The End of a Nasty Election

Ward Connerly: A Weapon of Mass Distortion

Appreciating Jesse Jackson

Internal and External Strife has Plagued Haiti

Haiti Represents More than Chronic Poverty

Election Day Should be 'Hammer Time'

Condoleezza Rice Pimps the Civil Rights Movement

Hillary Clinton isn’t the Answer to Democratic Woes

It’s Time to Target ‘Economic Terrorists'

Working More, Enjoying it Less

Katrina’s Other Victims

Everyday Obstacles Must be Removed in AIDS War

AIDS Remain a ‘Super’ Problem

Stem Cell Debate Becomes Personal

One-sided Reporting on the Middle East

George Bush’s Bigotry of High Expectations

Voting Rights Hall of Shame

Bruce Gordon Hits it on the Numbers

Bullying the News Media

Beyond the Voting Rights Act

Randall Kennedy: Negro Please

Banking on Diversity

The Birth of Black Aviation

Political Cross-dressing in New Orleans

Bush Lied about Spy Program

Damu Smith: 1952-2006

Another ‘Day of Absence’

Leaning on One Another

Ray Nagin Places Blacks in a Bind

Cynthia McKinney Uses Racism as a Crutch

New Orleans: A Different Place without the Displaced

The Media’s War of Words

Funerals as Family Reunions

High School Dropouts: The Silent Epidemic

My Journalism Be-Be Kids

Olympian Shani Davis: Soul on Ice

Tarnishing the King Legacy

Pulling a ‘Reverse Robin Hood’ on the Poor

Grading Congress – and the NAACP

New Orleans: Chocolate, Vanilla or Neapolitan?

The FBI and Dr. King

Judge Alito's Civil Wrongs Record

Losing a Generation of Relatives

A ‘Complicated’ Love Affair with the South

The NAACP is Fumbling the Ball on McNabb

Punishing the Kids of Illegal Immigrants

Taking Christ out of Christmas

True Education Reform

AIDS: No Time for Complacency

Renewed Attacks on Affirmative Action

Blueprint for Rebuilding a Black College

From the Back of the Bus

When Friends Die First

After the Millions More March

My Millions More Movement Speech 10-15-05

An Evening with the Community

Blacks are more than Criminals

Roberts Outmaneuvered Democrats

George W. is no LBJ

New Orleans: What Went Wrong?

New Orleans: A Disaster Waiting to Happen

The King of Right-wing Lunacy

The Farrakhan Challenge

John H. Johnson in Perspective

From Selma to Atlanta

‘Bombingham’ Revisited

White Damsels in Distress

A Cardiologist with a Heart

Pro Football’s Hall of Shame

Supreme Battle Looms Over Court Appointments

Declaring War on the Black Press

Mississippi Still Burning

Michael Jackson and Fallen Heroes

Frank Wills: The Real Hero of Watergate

Slavery and the Second Amendment

Other News About Newsweek

Condoleezza Rice Misfires

Race and the Runaway Bride

Discrimination with a Smile

Revolutionary School Reform

Taking a Pass on New Passports

Johnnie Cochran and the ‘No-Js’

Schiavo Case Exposes Hypocrisy

‘Hell No, We Won’t Go!’

Atlanta Murders: Guilt by Association

Dan Rather was no Liberal

An Academy Awards Program Finally Worth Watching

Race, Gender and Corporate America

Ossie Davis Mixed Art and Politics

Plotting Social Insecurity

Good-Bye McKenzie Courts

The Needy and the Greedy

The Making of Jim Forman