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We cannot accept mass murder

February 17, 2023

Jesse Jackson Once more the horror. Three mass shootings in California – 11 killed at a ballroom dance hall in Monterey Park, seven killed at Half Moon Bay, and a week earlier, a 16-year-old mother and four others shot in a California farming community – are tragic and grotesquely routine.

DeSantis has charted a course to the White House that cuts through the swamp of White supremacy

February 17, 2023

Marc H. Morial Ron DeSantis has clearly demonstrated that he wants to dictate whose story does and doesn’t belong. He wants to control what our kids can learn based on politics and not sound policy … He wants to say that I don’t belong. He wants to say that you don’t

Divisions set in concrete and pavement

February 16, 2023

Ben Jealous The racial divisions that have split our country for centuries don’t just live in people’s hearts and heads. Some of them exist in concrete and pavement running right through certain neighborhoods. They are structural racism in the most tangible sense. In Milwaukee last month, local activists told me

Black officers upholding our Black heritage

February 16, 2023

David W. Marshall “I would like to make it crystal clear, I do not regret what I did. I am not sorry. I have not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed.” Those were the harsh words from Dylann Roof written in a journal six weeks after killing

Against the grain II

February 16, 2023

James and Ferguson have endured to find their calling Vaughn Wilson Two of the most unlikely candidates in one era of their lives have found their rhythm. Overseer Gregory James and the Rev. Rudy Ferguson both had lives that were going down paths over three decades ago that in most

To be equal

January 30, 2023

A failure to prosecute Trump would be a failure of justice of historic proportions Marc Morial Saving American democracy for the long run requires a clear condemnation of the Trump presidency. That means making clear that no one is above the law … Presidents also need a clear message, one

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries shows leadership skills

January 30, 2023

David W. Marshall The first speech given by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to the newly-seated 118th Congress was a proud moment in history. In life, our elders often play important roles in our development and the fulfillment of our purpose. We often look to those elders for wisdom, knowledge,

Is the “conscience of the Congress” unconscious?

January 30, 2023

Wilmer Leon “Even though we think first of those we were directly elected to serve, we cannot, in good conscience, think only of them—for what affects one black community, one poor community, one urban community, affects all…,” Letter from Congressional Black Caucus to President Nixon in 1971. In the 1960s,

Thompson’s leadership is an extension of a lifelong mission to safeguard voting rights and racial justice

January 6, 2023

Marc Morial “This committee is nearing the end of its work. But as a country, we remain in strange and uncharted waters. We’ve never had a president of the United States stir up a violent attempt to block the transfer of power. I believe, nearly two years later, this is

Stop normalizing anti-Blackness

January 6, 2023

Julianne Malveaux Autumn Robeson Monahan is a 17-year-old Black girl attending high school in Slaton, Texas. The senior, who transferred to Slaton High School when her parents relocated there from Ohio, hoped to be her high school valedictorian based on her stellar grades. Instead, she was subjected to regular, vile,