Editorials

Anti-democratic authoritarianism is on the rise–both around the world and here at home. Sometimes it is easier to recognize overseas. That’s especially true at moments like this when Vladimir Putin’s military is killing civilians in Ukraine to feed his ambitions for greater power and is crushing any effort at dissent or truth-telling in his native Russia.

While National Pay Equity Day came earlier this year than last, meaning that the gender pay gap is narrowing, the general pay equity day does not address the pay differences that Black, Latina, Asian, and Native American women earn.

We Black folks have not done our jobs of teaching young Black people the historic truths they need to know.

Anti-democratic authoritarianism is on the rise–both around the world and here at home.

By now, everyone understands that the month of March has been designated as Women’s History Month.

Just when you say it can’t get any worse, it gets worse.

Voting rights activists were back in Selma this month to commemorate history—and to make it.

Black people who live in Ukraine have been mostly ignored when these human interest stories are broadcast.

President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address reminded Americans that democracy needs defenders—here at home as well as in Ukraine.

Worse than the movies and isolation is a renewal of the full-scale, attempted imposition of invisibility upon the African American community.