Holiday Season Begins Across New York City Area

How Kwanzaa Redefine Winter Holidays For Black Folks

For African Americans, Kwanzaa is not just any “black holiday.” It's a recognition that knowledge of Black history is worthwhile.
12.27.21
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Examining American Gun Culture During Christmas

Black Friday was the gun industry's most active day of 2021, according to FBI statistics. Santa got himself a gun…
12.24.21
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Peggy Noonan Should Stop Fixating On Kamala Harris

Harris is not beyond critique, but the fixation on picking apart every little action she takes is beyond ridiculous. Black…
12.11.21
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An Interfaith Holiday

In most American households, one religion usually becomes the religion of the family. If your parents were Christian, then so…
12.25.21
An Urgent Way Forward: A Summit On Intersectional Environmentalism

Big Wins For Progressives In Metro Atlanta

This was never just about winning elections. We believe the right candidates championing the right policies can use policy to…
12.04.21
op-ed Election For Mayor Held In Minneapolis

How Changing Minneapolis Policing Affects Black Organizing

It's important to be clear that Question 2 -- a critical ballot initiative that would have replaced the Minneapolis Police…
11.30.21
op-ed US jury finds Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts

Moving Forward After Rittenhouse Trial

It’s great you can rattle off the definition of privilege, yet when Black organizations ask you to stand with them,…
11.20.21
op-ed Lawmakers Propose New Districts for Massachusetts 200 State House and Senate Seats

Why Redistricting Is So Important

As lawmakers discuss today’s hot topic policy issues, we must remain focused and hold our leaders accountable during the redistricting…
11.18.21
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Immigration Policy Demands Unconventional Thinking

If not for the crisis facing Haitians at the border, many people would still question me when I say that…
11.07.21
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When CRT Is Too Much For White Folks

After Condoleezza Rice said she doesn't "have to make white kids feel bad for being white," do you think the…
11.06.21
op-ed Election For Mayor Held In Minneapolis

What's Next For Police Reform In Minneapolis?

By a 56% to 44% margin, voters said “no” to a charter amendment that would have replaced the Minneapolis Police…
11.30.21
Virginia Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Glenn Youngkin Holds Election Night Rally

Winsome Fears And The 'Safe Negro' Era

Winsome Sears, Virginia's new lieutenant governor, is the first woman of color to be elected to the position and the…
03.23.22
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Black Voters In Minneapolis Deserve Big Change

Should Question 2 pass, the mayor and city council would work together to develop the new department’s appropriate ordinances, policies,…
10.25.21
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Media 2070 On The Case For Media Reparations

Our nation’s defacto media-apartheid system goes back to the distribution of the earliest radio and television broadcasting licenses to whites,…
10.24.21
op-ed Democrats Hold Unprecedented Virtual Convention From Milwaukee

The Complicated 'Double-Consciousness' Of Colin Powell

W.E.B. DuBois' concept of the “double-consciousness” of the African American experience profoundly describes Colin Powell as a soldier, a career…
10.23.21
op-ed Georgia NAACP Holds Protest For Shooting Death Of Jogger Ahmaud Arbery

How To Get Away With Black Murder

Amid jury selection in the trial for Ahmaud Arbery's killing, it's important to remember that the playbook for low-tech lynching…
10.23.21
"Candace" Hosted By Candace Owens

Every Receipt Proving Candace Owens Is A Fraud

We have the receipts for Candace Owens' bizarre, hypocritical, self-serving history of scamming and grifting.
03.17.22
op-ed Jury Selection Begins In Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial

The Myth Of The Unbiased Juror

Lawyers on both sides of the Ahmaud Arbery case aren’t the only ones grappling with the problem of finding unbiased…
10.21.21
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Defining Diversity

American diversity is in the spotlight as racial discrimination in the United States reemerges as a major topic of public…
10.19.21
op-ed Mostly Haitian Migrants Cross Treacherous Darien Gap En Route To U.S. Border

Biden Admin Backpedaling On Immigration Promises

Joe Biden's presidency hasn't translated into safeguarding Black asylum seekers from the throes of American ethnocentrism, racism and bigotry. Instead,…
10.09.21