Featured Opinion Opinions Politics September 16, 2021 Simone Biles’ powerful testimony on sex abuse left old and grey Senators speechless This week’s riveting and heart-wrenching testimony by four brave young, amazingly courageous young women, Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, McKayla Maroney
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics September 11, 2021 Twenty years after 9/11, America is divided more than ever I remember Sept. 11, 2001 vividly. Like everyone else who was alive on that day, I remember most of all
Featured Health Opinion Opinions September 9, 2021 COVID breakthrough infections are real. Here’s what you should know Summer has ended. Autumn is in the air. And we are all getting back into the grind of work, sending
Featured Opinion Opinions August 20, 2021 What does the 2020 US Census really mean for the future of Black citizens? The 2020 U.S. Census tells a powerful and yet troubling story for the future of America that is yet to
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics August 11, 2021 New York AG Letitia James, a Black woman, single-handedly brought down Cuomo Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that he will resign as the 56th governor of New York in two weeks. Cuomo’s
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics August 4, 2021 Rep. Cori Bush’s eviction triumph reminds us why representation in Congress matters We’ve all come to know ‘The Squad‘ which consists of four elected members of Congress who also happen to be
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics July 27, 2021 Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn reminds us racism was at the core of insurrection “Some people are trying to deny what happened — to whitewash it,” Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said on Tuesday in
Featured Politics July 21, 2021 White Capitol rioter gets slap on wrist, while Black people get the book thrown at them I often tweet the hashtag #TwoAmericas and I do so intentionally. With each passing day as I watch the news,
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics July 15, 2021 How Trump and the Right’s anti-vaccine propaganda is killing Black people As the COVID-19 variant strain begins to spread throughout the nation, almost 99% of the time it attacks the unvaccinated.
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics July 9, 2021 Warnock vs. Walker? Someone tell Republicans replacing one Black man for another doesn’t work Last week, in yet another shady move from former President Donald J. Trump to reassert himself into our national politics,
Education Featured HBCU Opinion Opinions July 7, 2021 Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Howard move teaches us how to fight with the tool of self-respect Talk about a masterclass in how to love, honor and be true to yourself. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones shocked
Featured Opinion Opinions July 1, 2021 Cosby’s prison release on a technicality is the result of a legal screw-up In a stunning ruling by way of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Bill Cosby’s release was granted on what many legal
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics June 27, 2021 DOJ finally steps into the voting rights arena to defend the Black vote In a move that shocked both civil rights activists, and legal scholars alike, the U.S. Justice Department announced last week
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics June 24, 2021 Republicans blocking For The People Act has everything to do with racism It strikes me as strange that some 160 years after Black men were first granted the right to vote by
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics June 8, 2021 AOC endorsing Maya Wiley is a test for Black and brown women’s political power What a brave new world we live in as women. The vice president of the United States of America is
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics May 26, 2021 Kristen Clarke made history, but race and politics nearly stood in the way … again It’s always hard to be the first. But in some instances, the first is usually the most obvious person to
Education Featured Opinion Opinions May 21, 2021 Nikole Hannah-Jones and the burden of Black excellence in a whitewashed America My Nana used to tell us, “Baby you have to be twice as good.” I never understood what she meant
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics May 20, 2021 Val Demings for U.S. Senate in Florida? Yes, Ma’am. What does it say that there are 24 women serving in the United States Senate presently and not one of
Featured Opinion Opinions Politics April 30, 2021 Why Black women aren’t getting elected to statewide and executive positions Right here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, my home state for over 30 years, we remain the only southern state
Featured Opinion Opinions April 21, 2021 For Black America, the Derek Chauvin verdict hits on a spiritual level There is something soul-stirring about the Black church. When you grow up as I did, and many of us did
