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…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Whatever other lessons we glean from the targeting, accusation, indictment, trial, trashing and conviction of Mark Ridley-Thomas and the dual response to all this by…
Resisting the De-Africanizing of Ancient Egypt: Pursuing Its Paradigms of Excellence and Achievement
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The expanding discourse of concern and needful resistance that has developed in the Black scholarly and engaged community around the planned USA tour of Dr….
As the international community contemplates another armed intervention, a reckoning with history is long overdue. By Marlene L. Daut, The New Yorker — “What happened to the Creole pigs is…
By Ben Jealous — ConocoPhillips needs more than the disastrous approval it won from the Biden administration last week to proceed with its Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North…