By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Closing out this month of celebrating Black Music, I would like to do some sankofa sharing of some essential sensitivities and thoughts about the meaning…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Closing out this month of celebrating Black Music, I would like to do some sankofa sharing of some essential sensitivities and thoughts about the meaning…
By Ted Glick — “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year,…
By Hazel Trice Edney — It was Oct. 28, 2001, less than two months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon in Virginia and the World Trade Center…
Neighbors of all colors gathered on sacred and stained ground, called each other cousin, and reminded a nation that freedom belongs to everyone. By Ben Jealous — On Juneteenth, I…
In this edition of Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels, aka “the Professor,” hosts an Open Forum on current events and issues affecting Black America, the nation, and the world. The…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — I have never been much for flag-waving patriotism. I respect the rituals, and I understand why some people are moved by them. But my own…
In this edition of Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels, aka “the Professor,” speaks with Karen Juanita Carrillo, senior staff writer for the Amsterdam News and award-winning journalist, about “Why Cuba…
Following the May 2026 Fact-Finding and Mutual Solidarity Delegation to Cuba, the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW, IBW21) and the Pan African Unity Dialogue (PAUD) convened a…
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10, 2026 — Today, U.S. Representatives Jonathan L. Jackson (IL-01), Mark Pocan (WI-02), and Ro Khanna (CA-17) introduced a constitutional amendment to establish an affirmative right to vote,…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — They are calling it a budget cut. But let’s be clear: when Congress cuts WIC, it is taking food from pregnant women, babies, toddlers, and…
The Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW, IBW21) and the Pan-African Unity Dialogue (PAUD) present the May 2026 Communiqué of the Mutual Solidarity and Engagement Fact-Finding Delegation to…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The moral, social and environmental problematic that AI and digital culture pose for us as human beings and for the earth and our relationship with…