Op-Ed
Congress needs to act
The North Carolina Department of State Treasurer (DST) touches the lives of one in ten North Carolinians every month. We manage the 26th largest pool of money in the world valued at over $110 billion. […]
Op-Ed
Op-Ed
The husband hunters
Fall arrives as always, chasing closely behind August. When I was a child in Virginia, its warning chill nudged in before the last crops of summer were harvested; and the leaves began turning gold and […]
Op-Ed
America’s unfinished business
As we celebrate the “most American of holidays” on Tuesday, the Fourth of July, there is no better time to reflect on the true meaning of America’s founding promise: “We hold these truths to be […]
Op-Ed
Let’s fix Obamacare
As the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama made history in so many ways, especially with the passage of his signature health care law in March 2010. With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, […]
Columns
Learning the grandparent rules
During the last ten years I’ve learned a new set of rules. They’re called the Grandparent Rules. And recently I saw one of those rules in action. A couple of weeks ago, I was playing […]
Op-Ed
Uniting in the fight for justice
Those hundreds of people, representing the great diversity of our community, who attended the recent Sampson County NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet, probably took away a host of ideas and notions about what they witnessed firsthand […]
Editorials
Remembering Thurgood Marshall
As the legendary civil rights leader and chief counsel of the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund from 1938 to 1961, Thurgood Marshall did more than anyone else in the cause for justice, changing the […]
Op-Ed
HBCUs expand access and success
There is something special and unique about the HBCU experience – for me, that Aggie Pride. Historically black colleges and universities became a blessing at a time when black Americans had few options for higher […]
Op-Ed
NC A&T: ‘Our pride, our future’
What a great year to be associated with North Carolina A&T State University, one of the nation’s exceptional institutions of higher learning. With the start of the 2015-16 academic year back on August 19, some […]
Op-Ed
Maintaining the death penalty moratorium
By Larry Sutton Contributing columnist https://www.clintonnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/web1_Larry-Sutton1.jpg As a result of a recent Supreme Court decision, the issue of the death penalty or capital punishment has been brought back into the national spotlight. The case was […]