California’s reparations task panel approved recommendations to compensate and apologize to Black communities for centuries of discrimination. At a meeting in Oakland, the nine-member committee, which first met nearly two…
By Ben Jealous — I thought last week about the psalm that describes how the most exalted pays closest attention to the smallest, the most in need among us. I…
Haji Malcolm and Cultivating Critical Consciousness: Reaffirming the Radical Awareness of Being Woke
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The timeless texts and teaching of Haji Malcolm X are a vital contribution to defining and reaffirming the indispensable, urgent and ongoing need to cultivate…
May 15, 2023 Edition of Vantage Point Vantage Point host Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by special guest Rev. Dr. Herbert Daughtry (National Presiding Minister Emeritus, House of the Lord…
Recorded May 10, 2023 — Veteran US activists on the issue of Western Sahara join Frente Polisario’s US Representative for a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Frente Polisario….
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…
By Julianne Malveaux — My maternal grandfather was Haitian. I didn’t know him well – he died when I was about six. I don’t remember whether he smoked a pipe…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The brutal public judging and killing of Mr. Jordan Neely, a poor, homeless, mentally-ill Black man in New York City, offers again life-and-death evidence of…
May 8, 2023 Edition of Vantage Point Vantage Point host Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by Rev. Dennis Dillon (Editor/Publisher, New York Christian Times, New York, NY) and Dr. Zienzi…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — There is clearly so much to say in paying rightful homage to Nana Harry Belafonte in meaningfully marking his recent transition and ascension to sit…
By Don Rojas — Speaking with eloquence and passion, three dynamic members of the new generation of Black leaders–Maurice Mitchell, National Director, Working Families Party; Tarana Burke, founder of the…
Rapporteurs also chastise the German and Namibian governments for excluding Herero and Nama minorities from talks dealing with the mass murder of their ancestors. By Kate Connolly, The Guardian —…