By Kevin Harris and Richard McDaniel — Donald Trump won 48% of Latino voters in 2024 – the best Republican showing in half a century. Fourteen months later, 70% disapprove…
By Kevin Harris and Richard McDaniel — Donald Trump won 48% of Latino voters in 2024 – the best Republican showing in half a century. Fourteen months later, 70% disapprove…
By Ben Jealous — We keep Black History Month on one shelf and Valentine’s Day on another. One is supposed to be about pain and struggle. The other about flowers…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In remembrance, retrieval and reaffirmation. Clearly, in this important month and historical moment of celebrating Black History through remembrance and recommitment to ever-deeper study and…
Condolences and Reflections from Dr. Brenda M. Greene Founder & Executive Director Emeritus Center for Black Literature, CUNY — Woodie King Jr., the founder of the New Federal Theatre in 1970, the…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Don Lemon knew he was going to be arrested. On January 18, he flew from Minneapolis to Chicago to emcee the MLK Breakfast for PUSH…
By Ben Jealous — Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson has emerged as a clarion voice for American democracy in turbulent times. The values he represents reflect the voters who elected him….
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The essential recommendation of close reading and critical reflection concerning history is one of those kinds of advice which is regularly given but infrequently followed….
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Black America is often told that foreign policy is distant—something for diplomats, generals, and elites in places most of us will never see. We are…
In a state where towns revisit old stories and cities reel from new ones, America’s 250th asks what it really means to be free. By Ben Jealous — In Minnesota…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — There is, indeed, in this historic moment, a specter, an evil spirit and pernicious presence haunting, hunting and wreaking havoc on the world. And it…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The United States insists it cannot afford housing, jobs, or care. Yet it can always afford cages. Immigration enforcement is not a response to crisis;…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — To make even partial sense out of the Orwellian world and Madhatter would-be wonderland minus Alice which Trump and his MAGA Trumpeteers seek to establish…