By R. Drew Smith — Publication information Abstract With the 1976 Soweto uprising serving as a point of departure for the current analysis, this article examines shifts, continuities, expansions, and…
By R. Drew Smith — Publication information Abstract With the 1976 Soweto uprising serving as a point of departure for the current analysis, this article examines shifts, continuities, expansions, and…
Jerry Greenfield quit a year ago this week, saying the company had been silenced. Now he and Ben are asking for our help. By Ben Jealous — For almost as…
The Constitution begins with three powerful words: “We the People.” History immediately asks: Which people? By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — When those words were written, “we” did not include enslaved…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In marking this the 61st anniversary of the founding of the organization Us and the development of the Nguzo Saba, it is also important to…
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. — Unless you have lived through it, it is easy to dismiss as racial paranoia the wariness and discomfort felt by many successful business…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — We and the world will always owe Haiti something special for its unique and singular contribution of breaking the back of enslavement in Haiti, expanding…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The national debt has passed $40 trillion—that is $40,000,000,000,000, a number with more zeroes than most of us can comfortably count. The Congressional Budget Office…
Working-class men of every color have been in crisis for generations. The way out is to come together, for the sake of all our kids. By Ben Jealous — I…
The slander against Black fathers is as old as the country. The men who owned us knew better. So does modern social science. By Ben Jealous — Last week I…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is in the month of Insurgent August that Nana Marcus Garvey came into being and started on his historic journey to become the greatly…
Three weeks before he died, Dr. King stood up and argued with a number. The July jobs report says he was right. By Ben Jealous — Three weeks before he…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This is my standard column written to commemorate the Watts Revolt and to pay rightful homage to those who lost, gave and risked their lives…