
BY JESSE JACKSON September 1, 2015 This has been insurgent summer in presidential politics. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have soared. They are raising issues that politicians in both parties…
BY JESSE JACKSON September 1, 2015 This has been insurgent summer in presidential politics. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have soared. They are raising issues that politicians in both parties…
Dr. Maulana Karenga This month of August, full of commemorations, comes always with special meaning, for it is a central source and reference point for our history of righteous resistance…
byRandy Blazak Before you think this article is “just one liberal’s opinion,” let me briefly say I have dedicated my life to studying racism. I earned my PhD from Emory…
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson There was a very fleeting moment in the aftermath of the Katrina debacle, August 29, 2005, that the message that there are a lot of poor…
BY JESSE JACKSON August 25, 2015 This year in the NBA playoffs, LeBron James silenced all the chatterers who questioned his legacy. He put his team, decimated by injuries, on…
“Real progress for Blacks in this country has never come from quiet pleadings or the goodness of whites; it has been the result of confrontation, disruption, resistance and demand. Even…
BY JESSE JACKSON August 18, 2015 The news this weekend that Julian Bond passed away at 75 saddened me deeply. America has lost a true and still vital champion for…
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson I can’t tell you how many times I sparred with former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond on TV shows and in print during the years he…
By Brentin Mock The phrase “black-on-black crime” gets tossed around so cavalierly these days that it can be hard to ascertain the intention behind it—no matter who says it. When President Obama uses…
By Barrett Holmes Pitner The movement has certainly gained attention. But its decentralized structure means it runs the risk of going the way of Occupy Wall Street. Ferguson is the…
By Jamil Smith @JamilSmith The activist group #BlackLivesMatter emerged out of the rage and mourning that accompanied George Zimmerman’s acquittal for the murder of Trayvon Martin more than three years…
By William C. Anderson, The Black vote seems to matter more to some than Black life itself. This election season has inspired presidential candidates to engage in an array of…