By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Imagine having electricity for only four hours a day. Now imagine not knowing which four hours. Can you make coffee? Refrigerate medicine? Charge your phone?…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Imagine having electricity for only four hours a day. Now imagine not knowing which four hours. Can you make coffee? Refrigerate medicine? Charge your phone?…
The ground at the Hermitage is sacred and stained, and the music made by enslaved people and their progeny is what still feeds this country’s hope. By Ben Jealous — …
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the midst of the everyday madness, the extreme cruelty, the vulgarness and viciousness, and the greed, grift, graft and gangsterism in high and low…
The Dismantling of Black Political Power Since Louisiana v. Callais: Unmasking the Architecture of a Third Counter-Reconstruction By Selwyn Carter Editor-in-Chief, Black Politics & Former Voting Rights Programs Director, Southern…
The Imperial Presidency Meets the Family Business By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — America once worried about an imperial presidency. Now we have an imperial presidency merged with a family business….
By Herb Boyd — An ancient axiom declares that the “third time is charmed,” and thus it is so as I prepare to travel to Cuba. In 1961, when a…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The month of May is the month of Haji Malcolm X and also the month of African Liberation Day (ALD), and it brings with it…
By Herb Boyd, New York Amsterdam News — By the time you read this, the organizations and individuals marking the 101st anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X (El Hajj…
By Ben Jealous — My grandmother was born in 1916 on the same red Virginia ground where her grandfather was born enslaved. She lived to one hundred and five. She…
A Haitian Flag Day Special Vantage Point Articles and Essays by Dr. Ron Daniels May 18th is Haitian Flag Day, an occasion for the proud people of Haiti to reflect…
By Bill Fletcher Jr., ZNetwork — The US Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v Callais is the latest and probably most decisive blow to the Voting Rights Act since the…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Seventy-one years ago, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. For generations…