By Ben Jealous — It is official: 2024 was the hottest year on record. Temperatures not only surpassed 2023 as the previous hottest year, they leapt – for the first time…
By Ben Jealous — It may be the dead of winter, but when we think about our beaches none of us want to picture them covered in oil. That is…
By Ben Jealous — The incoming Trump administration is supposedly interested in “efficiency.” It has a whole quasigovernmental department – the Elon Musk- and Vivek Ramaswamy-chaired Department of Government Efficiency…
By Ben Jealous — The state of Alabama destroyed their homes. Your federal tax dollars helped pay for it. We are checking back in on the historic Black Shiloh community in Elba,…
By Ben Jealous — Contamination from lead, arsenic, and the other toxins in Tar Creek in northeastern Oklahoma stole the potential of many children of the Quapaw Nation. As a parent, I can…
By Ben Jealous — When Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president in 2021, she swore her oath of office on two Bibles. One belonged to our nation’s first…
By Ben Jealous — As we celebrate the 59th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) this month, it is important we remember: the only way to tackle the complex…
By Ben Jealous — A group of Texas cattle ranchers sued Oprah Winfrey for more than $12 million in 1996. They claimed that one of her shows, called “Dangerous Food,”…
By Ben Jealous — What if there was a blueprint for a future presidential administration to unilaterally lay waste to our constitutional order and turn America from a democracy into…
By Ben Jealous — Independence Day at its best is a call to action to leave our children an America as good as its promise. This time of year makes…
By Ben Jealous — When Terence Crutcher, a father of four who sang in his church choir, was shot and killed by the police in 2016 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his…
Black people face enough barriers to enjoying the outdoors. Self-defeating stereotypes should not be one of them. By Ben Jealous — When Rodney Smith’s uncle invited him to go to…