The former president’s cronies are planning to gut anti-discrimination policies should he retake the White House in November. By Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone — Allies of Donald Trump and powerful conservative…
Legislators lay out 2024 reparation package, with more in years to come. By Robert J. Hansen, Observer — California’s Legislative Black Caucus on Feb. 21 unveiled its 2024 reparations package…
January 15, 2024 MLK Day Edition of Vantage Point — Host Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor is joined by special guest Rev. Dr. Waltrina Middleton, Executive Director, Community Renewal Society, Chicago, IL. Topic: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King “A Time to Break Silence”.
By Kali Holloway, AlterNet — The Martin Luther King Jr. who is cynically trotted out every time racial unrest erupts in our cities is the MLK who can be conveniently…
Throughout US history, a ‘white backlash’ has worked to keep Black officeholders and their constituents out of power. Atlanta DA Fani Willis is just the latest. By Rodney Coates, Professor…
By Valante Maria, Medium — A recent incident at the Montgomery Alabama riverfront has ignited profound discussions about the complex struggles faced by black Americans and the importance of unity…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Certainly, practicing the morality of remembrance, we cannot pass the month of July without paying rightful homage to our foremother, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, born…
Mary McLeod Bethune is the first Black American to be represented with a state statue in the National Statuary Hall. Her likeness replaces a statue honoring one of the last…
When Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Fred Gray was her lawyer. Now he’s being honored for a lifetime of civil rights…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — There is no greater honor or higher praise we can offer our ancestors than to try as best we can to live the legacy of…
Not a single House Republican voted for the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. By John Nichols, The Nation — “Old battles have become new again,” said US Representative Terri Sewell,…
By Steve Bailey, Post and Courier — On Tuesday, Charleston City Council will receive the recommendations that the Special Commission on Equity, Inclusion and Racial Conciliation spent more than a…