Editorials

In a country growing more diverse by the day, we have the power to stop book bans and other attempts to erase Black history.

On Earth Day 1993, I delivered the first major speech of my life. It was in New York City’s Bryant Park, kicking off a nationwide tour to rally opposition to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Driven in part by restrictive laws enacted since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, the racial voting gap has exploded and grows wider by the year.

If you think the Trump campaign is just an amusing but unthreatening sideshow, it is not. This is dangerous.

The Black community as a whole can never afford to lose empathy for one another. One of the core challenges in maintaining social justice is communicating the need for empathy. It is most critical to be willing to put yourself in another person’s shoes to understand their feelings, plight, and perspectives while using that understanding to guide your actions.

What a week this has been! The Orange Man has met a Mack Truck.  Every time he looks at a woman of African descent, I suspect he must say to himself, “Here comes trouble!”

If we want to end the Black maternal health crisis, filmmaker Tonya Lewis Lee says the choice is clear on election day in November.

An admittedly way too small number of Black people in the USA strongly believe that we put ourselves in ongoing cultural, economic and political danger by not being more unified.

Taking a break from his criminal trial, he tries to gaslight Black voters with a staged visit to a Harlem bodega. But the owner killed a Black man in 2022.

Should protestors be held responsible for criminal acts committed during a protest? According to the reactions of U.S. Supreme Court justices, it may depend upon the protesters’ race or political views.