
By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD — August 6, 2025 marked the 60th anniversary of the ratification of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – one of the most consequential laws…
By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD — August 6, 2025 marked the 60th anniversary of the ratification of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – one of the most consequential laws…
By Nkechi Taifa, Esq. — The U.S. Department of Justice has fired a dangerous shot across the bow of Asheville, North Carolina, and Buncombe County, threatening legal action if they…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is a fundamental teaching and uncontested contention in Kawaida philosophy that there is an endless library of lessons and legacies in our history and…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Activist and Code Pink (a pro-peace feminist organization) founder Medea Benjamin was simply walking the halls of Congress when she spotted Congressman Darrel Issa (R-CA)….
By Ben Jealous — I started out this year, 2025, in Chicago, honored to give the Martin Luther King Day address at Reverend Jesse Jackson’s big gathering. The timing was…
The racist upswell in the US looks “clearer from the outside,” says South African philosopher Nuraan Davids. By George Yancy , Truthout — Donald Trump’s war on diversity, equity, and…
Ethiopia will tomorrow inaugurate Africa’s largest dam, a major source of electricity and national zeal for the country, but one that threatens to fray ties with nations downstream. The Grand…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The arrival of September 7th easily brings to mind and memory for Us the 60th anniversary of the Organization Us, a major organization in the…
Dr. Julianne Malveaux — economist, author, educator, and Commissioner with the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) — delivered remarks at Congressman Al Green’s 3rd Annual Slavery Remembrance Legislative Update…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Members of Congress have slithered their way back to Washington, many Democrats continuing to silently cower in the face of injustice, many Republicans kissing the…
Ronald Hampton, Chairman of IBW’s Police Justice and Accountability Task Force, retired veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department, and former executive director of the National Black Police Association, joins host…
In a recent Newsweek opinion column, Kevin Powell draws on personal experience and cultural history to argue that America must tell the full truth about slavery if it hopes to…