Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Are you ready to vote?  Are you registered?  These may seem like simplistic questions, especially for those who are aware, but every year some folks are denied access to the polls because…

While millions of children (and teachers) welcome the call to go back to school in August and early September, all is not well in classrooms and school districts around the…

Our American exceptionalism allows us to shimmer, too fully in our greatness. We are the biggest and the baddest. We are the best armed and the most influential. We win…

With a woman heading the ticket of the Democratic Party, it may be challenging for us to remember – that women have had the right to vote for less than…

The North Carolina NAACP President, Rev. William Barber, tore it up and then threw down in a powerful speech at the Democratic National Convention on July 28th.  He called on…

Just a day after millions of Americans celebrated the “Fourth of You Lie”, our nation got more evidence of the lie we live when we “celebrate” freedom.  On July 5, 2016,…

The cretin who took an assault weapon into Pulse, an Orlando nightclub, on “salsa night” is beneath contempt.   Was his target the LBGTQ community, Latinos, or simply human beings?  After all, it…

Muhammad Ali was, among other things, a proud Black man. He embraced his Blackness, and often referred to it. He is often quoted for saying he had no quarrel with…

For all their dueling ideologies, Senator Bernie Sanders and “presumptive Republican nominee” Donald Trump are two sides of the same coin.  Both of them are angry, so intensely so, that…

I was apprehensive when I learned that President Obama would give the commencement speech at Howard University this year.  I feared a repeat of his Morehouse speech, his yammering and scolding…

Malia Obama deserves congratulations.  Admitted to Harvard University, she has decided to take a gap year, a mature choice that many students make when they want a break between intense…