Editorials

By HARRISON BLAIR Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce   Over the past couple years, leaders at all levels of government have sought to get more Americans online. President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law and American […]

By DAVID W. MARSHALL The Reconciled Body   (TriceEdneyWire.com) – As a Republican presidential contender in 2016, Donald Trump knew something most of us may have totally missed. Most people took it as a joke […]

By BEN JEALOUS People For the American Way   (TriceEdneyWire.com) – There is always a new low for Trump Republicans. And that is pretty frightening. Take the latest exercise in lawlessness, dishonesty, and cruelty from […]

By MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Children’s Defense Fund   In September 1957, nine Black teenagers started the new school year and changed history. Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence […]

By MARC H. MORIAL National Urban League   “Sarver didn’t have his come-to-Jesus moment voluntarily. He was dragged there kicking and screaming. And he expected to find clemency there, at the spot where he exchanged […]

By SUSAN K. SMITH Crazy Faith Ministries   Because most of us live in the “here and now,” and do not know the story of how we got where we are now, some are panicking […]

  By JESSE JACKSON SR. RainbowPUSH   (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Queen Elizabeth II’s death at 96 has occasioned an outpouring of tributes and grieving across the world. Heads of state, including Joe Biden, mourn her passing. […]

  By MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Children’s Defense Fund   Unprecedented. Historic. Unequaled. Astounding. We rarely hear adjectives like these associated with good news about child poverty, but these are a few of the words being […]

  By CHRISLEEN HERARD TriceEdneyWire.com   On Aug. 30, 20-year-old Donovan Lewis woke up to a bright weapon light searing into his room, the sounds of a barking K-9 outside his bedroom door and the […]

  By SUSAN K. SMITH Crazy Faith Ministries   Queen Elizabeth II has been laid to rest, and in spite of my concern and anger about her role in the perpetuation and support of colonization […]

By BEN JEALOUS People For the American Way   (TriceEdneyWire.com) – A New Mexico judge has done the country a big favor. Judge Francis Mathew upheld a little-known provision of the U.S. Constitution and removed […]

  By MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Children’s Defense Fund   “As Barack said, if the two of us can end up on the walls of the most famous address in the world, then, again, it is […]

By STEPHANIE MYERS and GEORGIA DUNSTON Black Women for Positive Change   During recent informal discussions with Gen Zs – ages 18-24, we have been distressed to learn that many of them and their friends, […]

  By SUSAN K. SMITH Crazy Faith Ministries   We are consistently hearing politicians and pundits talk about how work is being done to save America’s soul. Biden said it during his Continued Battle for […]

  By SYLVIE LÉGÈRE and DENISHA MERRIWEATHER TriceEdneyWire.com   Because of increased parent engagement, an education freedom movement is sweeping the nation that has the potential to have a significant positive impact on children and […]

  By FREDERICK HARRELL The Dallas Examiner   The Black Press has been the leading voice for the Black community for nearly 195 years. From the first day the idea was created by Bostin Crummell, […]

  By BEN JEALOUS People For the American Way   Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” I love that sentiment. I also know that […]

  By MARC H. MORIAL National Urban League   “A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” – Serena Williams In the days since tennis phenomenon […]

  By CHARLENE CROWELL Center for Responsible Lending   President Joe Biden’s recent student debt cancellation announcement elicited a diverse range of reactions – some congratulatory, others critical and still others that seem unsure what […]

  By BRANDON TENSLEY  CNN   The Biden administration this month declared the outbreak of monkeypox, a virus spreading disproportionately among men who have sex with men and their sexual networks, a public health emergency. […]

  By JESSE L. JACKSON SR. Rainbow PUSH Coalition   (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Benefits of a long life include lived memory and perspective. Today, it is easy to despair about America – with its extreme inequality, […]

  By MORRIS PEARL Patriotic Millionaires   On Monday, the United States celebrated Labor Day. First recognized as an official federal holiday in 1894, the day offers an opportunity for all Americans to come together […]

By SUSAN K. SMITH Crazy Faith Ministries   When a grand jury refused to indict the police officer who shot and killed 13-year-old Tyre King in Columbus, Ohio, in 2016, the wail of his mother […]

  By MARC H. MORIAL National Urban League   “By forgiving up to $20,000 in burdensome student loan debt, President Biden is giving working- and middle-class families the financial breathing room the desperately need. Buying […]

  By MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Children’s Defense Fund   Thousands of students who attended Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools summer enrichment programs this year are now headed back to school armed with the confidence that […]