
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble and Ed Wright founded Black Music Month in June 1979. Also known as African American music Appreciation Month, it was first…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble and Ed Wright founded Black Music Month in June 1979. Also known as African American music Appreciation Month, it was first…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Douglas Turner Ward (1930-2021) wrote a searing play, Days of Absence that depicted the way life might be like in a small southern town where…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Malcolm X, the fearless leader that the actor and activist Ossie Davis described as one of Harlem’s “brightest hopes”, the “stormy, controversial and bold young…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Critical thinking has taken a leave absence. Reality is unreal. History is inverted, so the villains become the victims, and the victims the villains. Shakespeare…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Are you better off than you were three months ago, when the current President was sworn into office on January 20? That’s the question President…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — His Holiness Pope Francis made his transition on the morning of after Easter Sunday, after he delivered an Easter blessing from the balcony of St….
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — After he won the Nevada Republican caucuses in 2016, the current President crowed his victory. “We won with young. We won with old. We won…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — It has not yet been sixty days, but in two scant months the 47th President has upended business as usual, in federal government, in classrooms,…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Because I lack a degree in psychology or pathology, I cannot speculate about the motives of the 47th President who, on March 4, embarked on…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — I can’t remember when I met Dr. Olivia Hooker, a Tulsa Massacre survivor, the first African American woman to serve in the Coast Guard (she…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The 47th President has attacked our government like a bull in a China closet. He is doing his best to upend precedent and policy, as…