
By Maulana Karenga — It is a beautiful memory and uplifting thought to realize our organization Us was conceived in the fiery and formative womb of the August 1965 Revolt…
By Maulana Karenga — It is a beautiful memory and uplifting thought to realize our organization Us was conceived in the fiery and formative womb of the August 1965 Revolt…
As prince, Charles used tax breaks, offshore accounts and canny real estate investments to turn a sleepy estate into a billion-dollar business. By Jane Bradley and Euan Ward, The New…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Since the Sixties, we of Us have understood, engaged and embraced Blackness as a very serious and sacred way of being and becoming in the…
When the state acts in your name, it’s your reputation that’s held to account. By Charles P. Pierce, Esquire — Marie Howe was a state representative from the 31st Middlesex…
Queen Elizabeth II’s death should bring about a reckoning in understanding how the British Empire helped destroy the planet. By Priya Satia, Time — Pakistan is under water, England faces an energy…
Mourn the Queen, not her empire. She helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged. By Maya Jasanoff, The New York…
By Julianne Malveaux — President Joe Biden made a campaign promise to alleviate some student loan debt, and on August 24, he honored his commitment. Some say it is too…
A Black Power radical, a Navy veteran, and the story behind the most boring channel on television. By Eamon Whalen, Mother Jones — In the late 1960s, Brian Lamb, the eventual…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we celebrate and commemorate this month of revolution and resistance, we call Black August, we of necessity pay rightful and special homage to the…
By Julianne Malveaux — This August, you can’t turn on a television or open a newspaper without reading or hearing about the teacher shortage. And it is clear that current…
By Julianne Malveaux — Democrats play checkers, and Republicans play chess. That’s why the Reagan Revolution, which kicked off in 1980, worked. President Ronald Reagan pledged to trim government bureaucracy,…
Such a brutal choice portends a bleak immediate future for government in the U.K. By David Renton, Truthout — Boris Johnson’s government will go down in history as a record-breaker…