By Ben Jealous — As someone who’s been organizing since I was a teenager, I can tell you that it’s hard to get people to focus on two things at…
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By Ben Jealous — Thirty years ago, my university suspended me for leading a protest against a research lab that the school wanted to put in the Audubon Ballroom where…
By Ben Jealous — This week in 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated leading a bold effort to teach America an urgent lesson: Racism is not just…
By Svante Myrick — So here we go again. Once more, the country is in the grip of a Donald Trump drama, when there are so many other important issues…
As the international community contemplates another armed intervention, a reckoning with history is long overdue. By Marlene L. Daut, The New Yorker — “What happened to the Creole pigs is…
By Ben Jealous — ConocoPhillips needs more than the disastrous approval it won from the Biden administration last week to proceed with its Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North…
By Ben Jealous — Vice President Kamala Harris is sure to be remembered every March in Women’s History Month as the first woman and the first person of color to…
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…
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