When we forget the first fights over voting rights, we forget who profits when the many are divided. By Ben Jealous — Voting rights is back in the news because…
When we forget the first fights over voting rights, we forget who profits when the many are divided. By Ben Jealous — Voting rights is back in the news because…
In this edition of Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels, aka “the Professor,” hosts an Open Forum marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Framed by Frederick Douglass’s enduring…
Watch the Presentation Premieres Saturday, July 4 at 12 PM ET. Click the play button above to watch this presentation here or directly on YouTube. If you find it informative,…
America turns 250 this week. We should be proud. We should also be honest. By Ben Jealous — Every year, we remember Paul Revere’s ride. As we should. We should…
By Ted Glick — “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year,…
Neighbors of all colors gathered on sacred and stained ground, called each other cousin, and reminded a nation that freedom belongs to everyone. By Ben Jealous — On Juneteenth, I…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — I have never been much for flag-waving patriotism. I respect the rituals, and I understand why some people are moved by them. But my own…
By Ben Jealous — The party of Andrew Jackson has spent a decade running from him. It should keep the two things he got right. I was 14 the first…
The ground at the Hermitage is sacred and stained, and the music made by enslaved people and their progeny is what still feeds this country’s hope. By Ben Jealous — …
By Ben Jealous — My grandmother was born in 1916 on the same red Virginia ground where her grandfather was born enslaved. She lived to one hundred and five. She…
In this edition of Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels, aka “the Professor,” hosts an Open Forum on “The Supreme Court Majority Decision: Betraying the Blood on the Bridge.” The program…
In this edition of Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels, aka “the Professor,” speaks with Bill Fletcher Jr., labor and social justice advocate and former president of TransAfrica Forum, about “U.S….