How the death of Charlie Kirk exposed so much more. A View From the Battlefield by Jamala Rogers — The murder of MAGA-mentored youth icon Charlie Kirk intensified the country’s…
How the death of Charlie Kirk exposed so much more. A View From the Battlefield by Jamala Rogers — The murder of MAGA-mentored youth icon Charlie Kirk intensified the country’s…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The United States economy is cruising for a bruising. Inflation keeps ticking up thanks to, among other things, rising inflation. The job market is not…
The March on Washington shows how artists, through solidarity and courageous love, helped bring the last one to an end. By Ben Jealous — Everywhere I go lately, people whisper…
Many will tell her story, but she told her story — and ours — best. By Herb Boyd — The name Assata Shakur is enshrined in the student center at…
By Ben Jealous — A Midwestern schoolteacher once told her class that a sense of humor is a sign of intelligence. “Look around the classroom,” she said. “The smartest kids…
By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD — August 6, 2025 marked the 60th anniversary of the ratification of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – one of the most consequential laws…
By Nkechi Taifa, Esq. — The U.S. Department of Justice has fired a dangerous shot across the bow of Asheville, North Carolina, and Buncombe County, threatening legal action if they…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is a fundamental teaching and uncontested contention in Kawaida philosophy that there is an endless library of lessons and legacies in our history and…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Activist and Code Pink (a pro-peace feminist organization) founder Medea Benjamin was simply walking the halls of Congress when she spotted Congressman Darrel Issa (R-CA)….
By Ben Jealous — I started out this year, 2025, in Chicago, honored to give the Martin Luther King Day address at Reverend Jesse Jackson’s big gathering. The timing was…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The arrival of September 7th easily brings to mind and memory for Us the 60th anniversary of the Organization Us, a major organization in the…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Members of Congress have slithered their way back to Washington, many Democrats continuing to silently cower in the face of injustice, many Republicans kissing the…