By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Continuing our conversation with Haji Malcolm in this his birth month of May, I want to also pay homage to a central source of his…
The once-upon-a-time defense of the poetics of rap has been ceded to the millennial mind of Genius.com, taking every syllable as ripe for mundane exegesis. By Lauren Michele Jackson, The…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — “There were fifteen Presidential debates in 2020,” thunders the Rev. William Barber, the co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral…
By Julianne Malveaux — Pennsylvania Democrat Summer Lee won her primary election on April 23, repelling an opponent who challenged her partly because of her criticism of Israel’s brutal war…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we move into May, the month of Nana Haji Malcolm’s coming into being and the imminent completion of my extensive original work, The Liberation…
By Ted Glick — April 30 is a day I remember because it is my mom’s birthday. She died in 2005. But it’s also a day I remember because, on…
By Ben Jealous — In Waukegan, Illinois, about 40 miles north of Chicago, Dulce Ortiz is celebrating with her children. Ortiz is a cofounder of the local environmental justice organization…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Again, the celebration of Earth Day this month gives us space and time to focus on our awesome responsibility for the natural world and all…
Vantage Point Vignettes Comments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels A determined new multiracial, multireligious generation of college and university students, including a substantial number of Jewish students have launched…
By Thom Hartmann — The most amazing thing about Donald Trump’s current criminal trial is that it is happening at all. He has told us that if he becomes president…
By Jim Clingman — In March of 2018, after 25 years of doing so, I submitted my final Blackonomics column to the members of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. The…
Most people think of “tree hugger” as a casual insult for a certain kind of environmentalist. The term actually has a proud history. It is time to take it back….