OP-ED

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.

AIPAC and its co-conspirators spent nearly $7 million to defeat progressive Donna Edwards because she was not sufficiently pro-Israel. Instead, in a safe Democratic district, AIPAC supported the more moderate Glen Ivey, who was the State Attorney for Prince George's County.

I know I am not alone when I say I never heard of Mike Johnson before he became the 56th Speaker of the House. After learning how the hardline conservative from Louisiana opposed the certification of the 2020 elections, I saw him as just another rubber stamp who is afraid to stand up to Donald Trump.

Even though a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands of lives lost since Columbine were lost in school shootings, such incidents underscore the shame of our nation's inaction on gun violence.

Black women leaders of national civil rights and voting rights organizations have gathered at the National Press Club in Washington DC to declare “America in Emergency,” at a time when conservative lawmakers continued to dismantle decades of Civil Rights gains.