By Dr. Brenda M. Greene — Nikole Hannah-Jones’s New York Times essay, “In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?” resonated for me as it did for…
By Dr. Brenda M. Greene — Nikole Hannah-Jones’s New York Times essay, “In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?” resonated for me as it did for…
African-Americans and other communities of color struggle hardest to pay electrical power bills while some attorneys general spend their time fighting to save coal. By Hazel Trice Edney — Families…
By Ben Jealous — Months after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, no one has been charged. He was 25….
In the Windy City, Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells spotlighted what Washington wanted forgotten. By Ben Jealous — This month we mark Columbus Day. The first one was a…
By Ted Glick — Let Me Walk in Beauty O Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me….
By R. Drew Smith — Publication information Abstract With the 1976 Soweto uprising serving as a point of departure for the current analysis, this article examines shifts, continuities, expansions, and…
Jerry Greenfield quit a year ago this week, saying the company had been silenced. Now he and Ben are asking for our help. By Ben Jealous — For almost as…
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. — Unless you have lived through it, it is easy to dismiss as racial paranoia the wariness and discomfort felt by many successful business…
Working-class men of every color have been in crisis for generations. The way out is to come together, for the sake of all our kids. By Ben Jealous — I…
The slander against Black fathers is as old as the country. The men who owned us knew better. So does modern social science. By Ben Jealous — Last week I…
Three weeks before he died, Dr. King stood up and argued with a number. The July jobs report says he was right. By Ben Jealous — Three weeks before he…
Frederick Douglass asked the question in 1853. Maryland is starting to answer it. By Ben Jealous — In 1836, four white apprentices beat Frederick Douglass nearly blind in a Baltimore…