
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…
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…
Conservatives have a long history of contorting the words of Martin Luther King Jr. to further political goals at odds with King’s vision of a colorblind society. By Hajar Yazdiha,…
Hakeem Jeffries was president of his college chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, a historically Black fraternity that he says shaped his future. By Mini Racker, Time — More than 30…
Review by Herb Boyd — The style and novelistic pace Bill Fletcher, Jr. established in his debut book The Man Who Fell from the Sky is ratcheted up significantly in The Man Who…