By Dr. Brenda M. Greene — Nikole Hannah-Jones’s New York Times essay, “In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?” resonated for me as it did for…
By Dr. Brenda M. Greene — Nikole Hannah-Jones’s New York Times essay, “In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?” resonated for me as it did for…
African-Americans and other communities of color struggle hardest to pay electrical power bills while some attorneys general spend their time fighting to save coal. By Hazel Trice Edney — Families…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Voting is not the most you can do. It’s the least you can do. It is the beginning of our civic responsibility, not the completion…
By Ben Jealous — Months after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, no one has been charged. He was 25….
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — In his run-up to the midterm elections, the president is crisscrossing the country in an effort to energize his base. Unfortunately, he seeks to inflame…
In the Windy City, Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells spotlighted what Washington wanted forgotten. By Ben Jealous — This month we mark Columbus Day. The first one was a…
By Herb Boyd — As a member of an IBW21/PAUD delegation that traveled to Cuba this year, I remain concerned about the welfare of the people on this island nation….
By Ted Glick — Let Me Walk in Beauty O Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me….
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 Dr. Maulana Karenga — If we, as a people, take seriously our critical and ongoing role as a moral and spiritual vanguard in this country and indeed the world,…
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…