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…
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…
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…
By Ben Jealous — The party of Andrew Jackson has spent a decade running from him. It should keep the two things he got right. I was 14 the first…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Imagine having electricity for only four hours a day. Now imagine not knowing which four hours. Can you make coffee? Refrigerate medicine? Charge your phone?…
The ground at the Hermitage is sacred and stained, and the music made by enslaved people and their progeny is what still feeds this country’s hope. By Ben Jealous — …
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the midst of the everyday madness, the extreme cruelty, the vulgarness and viciousness, and the greed, grift, graft and gangsterism in high and low…
The Dismantling of Black Political Power Since Louisiana v. Callais: Unmasking the Architecture of a Third Counter-Reconstruction By Selwyn Carter Editor-in-Chief, Black Politics & Former Voting Rights Programs Director, Southern…
The Imperial Presidency Meets the Family Business By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — America once worried about an imperial presidency. Now we have an imperial presidency merged with a family business….
By Herb Boyd — An ancient axiom declares that the “third time is charmed,” and thus it is so as I prepare to travel to Cuba. In 1961, when a…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The month of May is the month of Haji Malcolm X and also the month of African Liberation Day (ALD), and it brings with it…
By Herb Boyd, New York Amsterdam News — By the time you read this, the organizations and individuals marking the 101st anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X (El Hajj…
By Ben Jealous — My grandmother was born in 1916 on the same red Virginia ground where her grandfather was born enslaved. She lived to one hundred and five. She…