By David Olusoga / The Guardian There is a view that discussions about modern Africa should be forward-looking. They should be about trade, entrepreneurship, expanding markets, Chinese investment and the…

BY JESSE JACKSON September 8, 2015 A tree cannot withstand the storms if its roots are weak. A building will not stand without a strong foundation. An economy will not…
Here are a few ways to pay the bill. By Jamelle Bouie A high school in Clinton, Tennessee, in December 1956. Reparations wouldn’t just be about America’s slaveholding era. With…

By Sen. Hank Sanders (D-Selma) A giant named Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson passed Tuesday night, August 25, 2015. She was 110 years old. I saw her driver’s license when I…

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…