Kim Poole, Founder and Director of the Teaching Artist Institute (Baltimore, MD), delivers a moving tribute to Louise Langdon Little—the mother of Malcolm X—during the Institute of the Black World…

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — After he won the Nevada Republican caucuses in 2016, the current President crowed his victory. “We won with young. We won with old. We won…

By Ben Jealous — Dorothy Gibbs chanted “save our parks” from her wheelchair while holding a sign that read “97 years old, still fighting for public lands!” She was among…

By Ted Glick – I wonder how many people reading these words know the significance of April 19th to US Americans, and others, to all of us worldwide who value democracy…

More than a century later woman can vote, hold office and have equal rights in theory, but that has not changed the reality that men claim almost total political power….

The Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) was the first to make a clear statement (issued on March 2nd) condemning the policy position by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that…

By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this Black History Month II: Women Focus, I reach back to retrieve and share a hallowed homage to my mother, our mother, righteous representative…

“…Perry reevaluates what it means for Black Americans to be empowered in this smart and revelatory study….one of the most riveting and convincing studies yet to make a case for…

By Ben Jealous — As they say in horror movies, the call is coming from inside the house. Under Donald Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reversed its own…

Vantage Point Vignette Comments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels It was shocking, shameful and demoralizing to witness a handful of nervous, spinless Democrats in the Senate, led by shaky…

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — It has not yet been sixty days, but in two scant months the 47th President has upended business as usual, in federal government, in classrooms,…

When the President asks you a question, either say what people want to hear or you speak the truth. By David Love, The Black Commentator — Long before Alicia Keys,…