
Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on. By Ira Katznelson, Boston Review — First published in 2005, my book When Affirmative Action Was White answered a question Lyndon Johnson posed…
Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on. By Ira Katznelson, Boston Review — First published in 2005, my book When Affirmative Action Was White answered a question Lyndon Johnson posed…
By Ben Jealous — Governor Ron DeSantis continues to try to elevate his Presidential chances while doubling down on banning Black history. Meanwhile, the rest of us would be better…
By Alex Henderson, AlterNet — When one thinks of major U.S. cities with large Black communities, the places that usually top the list include Detroit (which is 77 percent Black,…
By Bashir Muhammad Ptah Akinyele — I am outraged that the college board capitulated to the likes of Governor Ron DeSantis. Let’s be clear! Governor DeSantis’ effort to suppress aspects…
By Ben Jealous — The racial divisions that have split our country for centuries don’t just live in people’s hearts and heads. Some of them exist in concrete and pavement…
By Ben Jealous — We’ve had more mass shootings this year than we’ve had days this year. It’s sad to imagine that Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park will join…
Hotep dear family, I am outraged over the beating and murder of Tyre Nichols by self hating Black officers. The consequences of White supremacy and institutional racism have created abnormal…
In the current context, peace serves only Morocco’s interests, leaving it free to exploit our territory without cost or consequence. By Najla Mohamedlamin, The National Interest — My generation of…
By Ishaan Tharoor with Sammy Westfall, The Washington Post — A new study of Africa’s 54 countries provides grim reading. It found that much of the continent is less safe and…
By Ben Jealous — Two things happened last week — one public, the other personal — that made me reflect on how far we’ve come as a nation, how we…
By Barbara Arnwine — I’ve fought for civil rights my entire career. In fact, in honor of my late mother, Vera Pearl Arnwine, I will tell you that my actual…
Conservatives have a long history of contorting the words of Martin Luther King Jr. to further political goals at odds with King’s vision of a colorblind society. By Hajar Yazdiha,…