![Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, right, speaks during a hearing about reparation for the descendants of slaves before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, at the Capitol on June 19, 2019.](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sheila-jackson-lee-reparations-hearing-2019-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
By Julianne Malveaux — Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) didn’t lose many battles, but she succumbed to pancreatic cancer on July 19. She tackled the disease like she tackled so…
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 Julianne Malveaux — Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) didn’t lose many battles, but she succumbed to pancreatic cancer on July 19. She tackled the disease like she tackled so…
By Julianne Malveaux — Since I don’t tell Republicans how to handle their business, I was somewhat indifferent to the Veepstakes that surrounded candidate Trump. Though South Carolina Senator Tim…
By Julianne Malveaux — President Joe Biden missed a great opportunity on June 27. Two days after the disastrous debacle also known as a debate, tens of thousands of people…
By Julianne Malveaux — Could the “historic debate” between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump possibly live up to the hype? CNN promoted it nonstop, and had analysis…
By Julianne Malveaux — Now that the former President and the candidate for future President has been convicted of thirty-four felonies, he joins nineteen million other Americans who have such…
By Julianne Malveaux — Project 2025 is a conservative manifesto if a Republican is elected President in 2024. Crafted by the Heritage Foundation, the 900-page book comprehensively addresses every agency…
By Julianne Malveaux — I was blessed to visit my hometown from May 17 through May 19, blessed to join a stellar group of twenty-five women who graced the front…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — “There were fifteen Presidential debates in 2020,” thunders the Rev. William Barber, the co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral…
By Julianne Malveaux — Pennsylvania Democrat Summer Lee won her primary election on April 23, repelling an opponent who challenged her partly because of her criticism of Israel’s brutal war…
By Julianne Malveaux — Let me begin with the obligatory statements. What happened on October 7, 2023, was horrible. Hamas launched an attack on Israel that some describe as “unprovoked.”…
By Julianne Malveaux — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) needed Democrats to narrowly avert the government shutdown that loomed large if Congressional budget legislation was not passed by Saturday, March…
By Julianne Malveaux — Remember the parable of the blind men and the elephant? As each approached an elephant and tried to describe it, they came up with wildly disparate…