Perspectives

  By JESSE L. JACKSON SR. Rainbow PUSH Coalition   (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Jan. 6, 2022 marked one year since the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, incited by a president voted out of office by […]

  By BEN JEALOUS People For the American Way   It’s been a year since a mob of “Trumpists” violently attacked the U.S. Capitol. They wanted to stop Congress from affirming President Joe Biden’s victory. […]

  By MARC H. MORIAL National Urban League   “Our democracy was inches from ruin. Our system of government was stretched to the breaking point. Members and staff were terrorized. Police officers fought hand to […]

  By MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Children’s Defense Fund   On Dec. 26, the world lost beloved South African Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu. An outspoken defender of human rights and campaigner for […]

  By CHARLENE CROWELL Center for Responsible Lending   On Jan. 17, the nation will pause to honor the life of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The only Black American to be […]

  By SUSAN K. SMITH Crazy Faith Ministries   There are a lot of reasons to be concerned about what is going on in America right now, but one of the biggest reasons is that, […]

  By BEN JEALOUS People For the American Way   (TriceEdneyWire.com) – One of the most important reasons to vote Donald Trump out of the White House was to stop him from packing our federal […]

  By BENJAMIN F. CHAVIS JR. NNPA   Disproportionate mass incarceration of people of color in America continues. The calls for prison reform include proposals to lower telephone rates for prisons throughout the United States. […]

  By JOHN HARWOOD CNN   In 1947, the year Joe Manchin was born, the U.S. Senate killed voting-rights legislation – again. The “gravedigger,” liberal Democrats complained, was filibuster rules empowering its opponents. Today, as […]

  By LEE H. HAMILTON Center on Representative Government   With a $1 trillion infrastructure package on the books and the Biden administration’s $1.8 trillion “Build Back Better” measure preoccupying the Senate after passing the […]