By Ben Jealous — U.S. Steel gave birth to Gary, Indiana in 1906. The city, named after a chairman of the corporation’s board, started as housing for steelworkers. The Gary…
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By Ben Jealous — More than one million Americans told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week that they aren’t willing to wait any longer. Their comments insisting that EPA…
By Ben Jealous — The last Apollo mission launched a few weeks before I was born. I grew up hearing people describe an audacious goal as a “moonshot.” What excites…
By Ben Jealous — A year in which there are only three races for governor’s seats, all in the Deep South, wouldn’t normally create a lot of political speculation. Kentucky’s…
By Ben Jealous — I traveled recently from Baltimore, the city where my mother grew up, to Portland, Maine, where my dad did. It’s easy for many to see differences…
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…
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 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 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 Ben Jealous — ConocoPhillips needs more than the disastrous approval it won from the Biden administration last week to proceed with its Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North…
By Ben Jealous — Vice President Kamala Harris is sure to be remembered every March in Women’s History Month as the first woman and the first person of color to…
By Ben Jealous — Governor Ron DeSantis continues to try to elevate his Presidential chances while doubling down on banning Black history. Meanwhile, the rest of us would be better…
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