By Ben Jealous — I thought last week about the psalm that describes how the most exalted pays closest attention to the smallest, the most in need among us. I…
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Haji Malcolm and Cultivating Critical Consciousness: Reaffirming the Radical Awareness of Being Woke
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The timeless texts and teaching of Haji Malcolm X are a vital contribution to defining and reaffirming the indispensable, urgent and ongoing need to cultivate…
By Ben Jealous — As someone who’s been organizing since I was a teenager, I can tell you that it’s hard to get people to focus on two things at…
By Julianne Malveaux — My maternal grandfather was Haitian. I didn’t know him well – he died when I was about six. I don’t remember whether he smoked a pipe…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The brutal public judging and killing of Mr. Jordan Neely, a poor, homeless, mentally-ill Black man in New York City, offers again life-and-death evidence of…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — There is clearly so much to say in paying rightful homage to Nana Harry Belafonte in meaningfully marking his recent transition and ascension to sit…
By Ben Jealous — Thirty years ago, my university suspended me for leading a protest against a research lab that the school wanted to put in the Audubon Ballroom where…
By Julianne Malveaux — Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had a tumultuous election to his post as House Speaker in January. It took him fifteen votes and innumerable compromises to secure his…
By Ben Jealous — This week in 1968, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated leading a bold effort to teach America an urgent lesson: Racism is not just…
By Svante Myrick — So here we go again. Once more, the country is in the grip of a Donald Trump drama, when there are so many other important issues…
By Julianne Malveaux — The recent massacre of three students and three adults in Nashville is alarming. How and why did a former student invade the school locked and loaded…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Whatever other lessons we glean from the targeting, accusation, indictment, trial, trashing and conviction of Mark Ridley-Thomas and the dual response to all this by…
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