
Teach for America Executive Director Randolph “Randy” Ward shares what teachers, administrators, and policy makers need to do to ensure Black students have an excellent education. By Aziah Siid, Word…
Teach for America Executive Director Randolph “Randy” Ward shares what teachers, administrators, and policy makers need to do to ensure Black students have an excellent education. By Aziah Siid, Word…
Annual Founder’s Kwanzaa Message By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Heri za Kwanzaa. Happy Kwanzaa to African people everywhere throughout the world African community. And we share these greetings also with…
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…