By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. — August 28, 1955, was many lifetimes ago, but, in the evolution of this country, it seems like the blink-of-an-eye. Irrefutably, the racism that…
By Julianne Malveaux — Autumn Robeson Monahan is a 17-year-old Black girl attending high school in Slaton, Texas. The senior, who transferred to Slaton High School when her parents relocated…
The never-questioned trillion-dollar budget that Congress tosses at the Pentagon every year normalizes war. Where is our peace budget? By Robert Koehlerdec, LA Progressive — Two dogs walking. One of…
We are starting to see evidence that those on the far right are jockeying for position in a potential post-Trump world. By Matt Lewis, Daily Beast — Now that the…
Come January, Mitch McConnell and his Republican colleagues will face a 51-49 Senate Democratic majority – making Biden’s job a little easier. By Lloyd Green, The Guardian — Tuesday delivered…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we move once again into the month of December and the season of celebration of the good at the year’s end, Kwanzaa will again…
By Julianne Malveaux — Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) introduced HR-40 in every congressional session from 1989 until he left Congress in 2017. Then, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) ably took…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — (Author’s note: This is a revisiting of an earlier article that speaks not so much to history repeating itself, but of different peoples repeating their…
By Ben Jealous — A lot of good news came out of this month’s elections—and enough bad news to remind us that we can never let our guard down when…
By Ben Jealous — As the dust settles on the midterm elections and the warnings of a “Red Wave” evaporate, it’s time to take a deep breath and take stock…
By Julianne Malveaux — To let the pollsters tell it, Democrats were going to get a “drubbing” or a “shellacking” just like the one President Barack Obama experienced in 2010…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Regardless of the outcome of these current midterm elections, favorable results for us and others will not redeem or radically change this country or save…