Many are rejoicing that Republicans finally got around to electing a speaker, thus breaking the logjam that began when Trump acolyte Matt...

It would be generous to say that the Republican Party is a chaotic manifestation of political madness. Eight miscreants toppled House...

I must join others in condemning the bombing in Tel Aviv that killed more than 1,200 people. Those killed were mothers and fathers,...

Some people first saw civil rights activist Tamika Mallory when she was one of four leaders of the 2017 Women's March. Her activism...

The United Auto Workers and the Big Three automobile manufacturers – Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis haven't been able to agree on...

The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009. Several states have a higher minimum, but a predictable few,...

We need to watch our language. The debacle at the Montgomery Pier, where enslaved people were once offloaded and sold, is described as a...

On July 16, Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson announced that he would pivot from his role as President of the National Rainbow Coalition to...

As a child in Pinpoint, Georgia, Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was hazed by his classmates with the moniker "America's...

Our United States of America loves to brag about our advancements. We are the biggest, the best the most progressive and the most...

Just two years ago, in 2021, The Senate unanimously passed legislation to make Juneteenth (June 19) a federal holiday. The House of...

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott (R) has joined the throng of Republicans seeking to unseat the former President as the frontrunner of...

My maternal grandfather was Haitian. I didn't know him well – he died when I was about six. I don't remember whether he smoked a pipe or...

Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had a tumultuous election to his post as House Speaker in January. It took him fifteen votes and innumerable...

All Ralph Yarl was trying to do was pick up his siblings in Kansas City. He went to a home on 115 Street instead of 115 Terrace, an...

The abolitionist journalist Ida B. Wells’s quest to document lynchings began when three of her friends, Tommy Moss, Calvin McDowell, and...

The recent massacre of three students and three adults in Nashville is alarming. How and why did a former student invade the school...

The 45th President is in the news again, facing indictments in New York and Georgia for criminal behavior regarding illegally paying a...

The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the 16th largest bank in the United States, failed because its leaders used poor judgment in making...

The recent disgraceful derailment of the Norfolk Southern train in Palestine, Ohio, resulted from predatory capitalism on steroids....