
By Hanna Love and Hannah Stephens, The Brookings Institution — Cities nationwide are facing a dual challenge when it comes to public safety. The place-based assets proven to keep communities safe—including…
By Hanna Love and Hannah Stephens, The Brookings Institution — Cities nationwide are facing a dual challenge when it comes to public safety. The place-based assets proven to keep communities safe—including…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — His Holiness Pope Francis made his transition on the morning of after Easter Sunday, after he delivered an Easter blessing from the balcony of St….
Dr. Ron Daniels, veteran activist, scholar, President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, and host of Vantage Point, shares reflections on the historic 1972 National Black Political…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is only right, good and reflective of the high homage we owe and offer her, that in this Black History Month II – Women…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — After he won the Nevada Republican caucuses in 2016, the current President crowed his victory. “We won with young. We won with old. We won…
By Ben Jealous — Dorothy Gibbs chanted “save our parks” from her wheelchair while holding a sign that read “97 years old, still fighting for public lands!” She was among…
By Ted Glick – I wonder how many people reading these words know the significance of April 19th to US Americans, and others, to all of us worldwide who value democracy…
More than a century later woman can vote, hold office and have equal rights in theory, but that has not changed the reality that men claim almost total political power….
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this Black History Month II: Women Focus, I reach back to retrieve and share a hallowed homage to my mother, our mother, righteous representative…
By Ben Jealous — As they say in horror movies, the call is coming from inside the house. Under Donald Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reversed its own…
Vantage Point Vignette Comments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels It was shocking, shameful and demoralizing to witness a handful of nervous, spinless Democrats in the Senate, led by shaky…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — It has not yet been sixty days, but in two scant months the 47th President has upended business as usual, in federal government, in classrooms,…