By THE EDITORIAL BOARD of the New York Times Credit Alex Nabaum The Republican Party and its acolytes in the news media are trying to demonize the protest movement that…
By: Todd Steven Burroughs A woman wears a shirt with ‘Black Lives Matter’ during a memorial service for slain 18 year-old Michael Brown Jr. on August 9, 2015 at the…
Here are a few ways to pay the bill. By Jamelle Bouie A high school in Clinton, Tennessee, in December 1956. Reparations wouldn’t just be about America’s slaveholding era. With…
By Julia Craven & Nick Wing A protester advocates against police brutality in St. Louis. Sheriff Ron Hickman of Harris County, Texas, isn’t quite sure why suspect Shannon J. Miles…

By Sen. Hank Sanders (D-Selma) A giant named Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson passed Tuesday night, August 25, 2015. She was 110 years old. I saw her driver’s license when I…
For too long, we have looked in the wrong place and race for the genesis of our national story. By David Levering Lewis Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, educator, writer and…
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Washington Post Ernest Hemingway once said that courage was “grace under pressure.” Two presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have recently tested this proposition….
byRandy Blazak Before you think this article is “just one liberal’s opinion,” let me briefly say I have dedicated my life to studying racism. I earned my PhD from Emory…
By Rick Najera The presidential elections have steamed into our American landscape like the iron train did into the old west. Great for the white man, bad for the Indians. And…
Vantage Point Radio Show hosted by Dr. Ron Daniels with guests State Senator Hank Sanders, Jasiri X, Jacqui Patterson and Gail Glapion
Lilly Workneh Erika Goldring via Getty Images The State of Black New Orleans report released by the National Urban League on Wednesday gives clear context for the many ongoing challenges…
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson There was a very fleeting moment in the aftermath of the Katrina debacle, August 29, 2005, that the message that there are a lot of poor…