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....

African American history was celebrated at this year's Super Bowl. It was the first time that two Black quarterbacks faced off against...

Each year the Association for the Study of African American Life and History sets a theme for Black History Month. This year the theme is...

Just four days after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the inveterate warrior, Congressman John Conyers Jr....

Autumn Robeson Monahan is a 17-year-old Black girl attending high school in Slaton, Texas. The senior, who transferred to Slaton High...

Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) introduced HR-40 in every congressional session from 1989 until he left Congress in 2017. Then,...

Since early November, you've been barraged with appeals to donate to food banks, food baskets, and community food events. The hook, of...