
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 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…
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…
By Julianne Malveaux — The 45th President is in the news again, facing indictments in New York and Georgia for criminal behavior regarding illegally paying a porn star (New York) and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 2. Nana Harriet Tubman possessed not only a hearing heart developed and defined by rightful attentiveness, empathetic understanding and appropriate action as requested and…
By Julianne Malveaux — The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the 16th largest bank in the United States, failed because its leaders used poor judgment in making ill-advised investments. They invested…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 1. This is in homage to Nana Harriet Tubman: African woman, Black and beautiful woman; fierce and fearless freedom fighter; womanist warrior for all…
By Ben Jealous — Vice President Kamala Harris is sure to be remembered every March in Women’s History Month as the first woman and the first person of color to…