We should fear a “compromise” that sells out seniors, kids, and the disabled. By Richard (RJ) Eskow, Absolute Zero — In a May 4 article about the so-called debt ceiling…
By Ben Jealous — I thought last week about the psalm that describes how the most exalted pays closest attention to the smallest, the most in need among us. I…
Haji Malcolm and Cultivating Critical Consciousness: Reaffirming the Radical Awareness of Being Woke
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The timeless texts and teaching of Haji Malcolm X are a vital contribution to defining and reaffirming the indispensable, urgent and ongoing need to cultivate…
By Ben Jealous — As someone who’s been organizing since I was a teenager, I can tell you that it’s hard to get people to focus on two things at…
By Julianne Malveaux — My maternal grandfather was Haitian. I didn’t know him well – he died when I was about six. I don’t remember whether he smoked a pipe…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The brutal public judging and killing of Mr. Jordan Neely, a poor, homeless, mentally-ill Black man in New York City, offers again life-and-death evidence of…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — There is clearly so much to say in paying rightful homage to Nana Harry Belafonte in meaningfully marking his recent transition and ascension to sit…
By Ben Jealous — Thirty years ago, my university suspended me for leading a protest against a research lab that the school wanted to put in the Audubon Ballroom where…
By Julianne Malveaux — Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had a tumultuous election to his post as House Speaker in January. It took him fifteen votes and innumerable compromises to secure his…
By Ben Jealous — This week in 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated leading a bold effort to teach America an urgent lesson: Racism is not just…
By Svante Myrick — So here we go again. Once more, the country is in the grip of a Donald Trump drama, when there are so many other important issues…
By Julianne Malveaux — The recent massacre of three students and three adults in Nashville is alarming. How and why did a former student invade the school locked and loaded…