By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Every December, we celebrate the story of a child born in a manger. We adorn nativity scenes with soft light and warm sentiment, but we…
Dr. Julianne Malveaux is a member of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC), an economist, author and Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at California State University at Los Angeles. Juliannemalveaux.com
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Every December, we celebrate the story of a child born in a manger. We adorn nativity scenes with soft light and warm sentiment, but we…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — It’s the end of the year, which means you are being barraged by requests to give. Whether it is your alma mater, your church, a…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Every year, corporations expect us to line up, log on, and lose our minds for Black Friday. They expect us to stretch our budgets, drain…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Now that Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect of New York City, expect the slings and arrows at him to intensify. He has been called everything…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Dick Cheney, who died this week at age 83, was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in modern American politics. The former Vice…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — For millions of Americans, the federal government isn’t an abstraction. It’s a paycheck, a housing voucher, a student loan payment, a disaster relief check. When…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — We don’t hate America. We built America. Brick by brick, cotton bale by cotton bale, invention by invention, we shaped this nation while it denied…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The federal government shut down on October 1, and the impasse between Congressional Democrats and Republicans suggest that this may be a long one. Already,…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The United States economy is cruising for a bruising. Inflation keeps ticking up thanks to, among other things, rising inflation. The job market is not…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Activist and Code Pink (a pro-peace feminist organization) founder Medea Benjamin was simply walking the halls of Congress when she spotted Congressman Darrel Issa (R-CA)….
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Members of Congress have slithered their way back to Washington, many Democrats continuing to silently cower in the face of injustice, many Republicans kissing the…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The French philosopher Albert reportedly said, “Without work all life is rotten but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. Now, historians are suggesting…