By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this month of remembering, raising up and reflecting on our awesome making and movement through history, it is good to remind our ourselves, society…
By Bashir Muhammad Ptah Akinyele — I am outraged that the college board capitulated to the likes of Governor Ron DeSantis. Let’s be clear! Governor DeSantis’ effort to suppress aspects…
By Ben Jealous — The racial divisions that have split our country for centuries don’t just live in people’s hearts and heads. Some of them exist in concrete and pavement…
By Julianne Malveaux — Each year the Association for the Study of African American Life and History sets a theme for Black History Month. This year the theme is Black…
Dr. Maulana Karenga — The savage murder and mayhem imposed and inflicted on yet another Black man, a Black person, Tyre Nichols, on his family and community and on Black…
By Ben Jealous — We’ve had more mass shootings this year than we’ve had days this year. It’s sad to imagine that Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park will join…
Hotep dear family, I am outraged over the beating and murder of Tyre Nichols by self hating Black officers. The consequences of White supremacy and institutional racism have created abnormal…
In the current context, peace serves only Morocco’s interests, leaving it free to exploit our territory without cost or consequence. By Najla Mohamedlamin, The National Interest — My generation of…
By Ishaan Tharoor with Sammy Westfall, The Washington Post — A new study of Africa’s 54 countries provides grim reading. It found that much of the continent is less safe and…
By Ben Jealous — Two things happened last week — one public, the other personal — that made me reflect on how far we’ve come as a nation, how we…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Author’s Note: As we come to the end of January and recommit ourselves to practices of good in and for the world, the pursuit and…
By Barbara Arnwine — I’ve fought for civil rights my entire career. In fact, in honor of my late mother, Vera Pearl Arnwine, I will tell you that my actual…