Perspectives

  By BEN JEALOUS People For the American Way   Virginia’s voters will pick the state’s next governor in November. The choice couldn’t be clearer, and neither could the national implications of this race in […]

  By BENJAMIN F. CHAVIS JR. NNPA   Even as the pandemic has laid bare societal inequities that have been eroding the foundation of our democracy, political leaders in Washington and in state capitols are […]

  By JESSE L. JACKSON SR. Rainbow PUSH Coalition   (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Record fires in Oregon and California. Floods in Houston and New York. Deadly winter storms in Texas. Droughts across much of the west. […]

  By MARC H. MORIAL National Urban League   “He was a Hollywood star with an off-Broadway paycheck that mostly went up his nose. He was a pacifist with a barroom-brawl, razor scar down the […]

  By MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Children’s Defense Fund   It was a gloriously beautiful morning in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sept. 11, 2001. I saw a glimpse of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s beloved community in […]

  By BEN JEALOUS People For the American Way   (TriceEdneyWire.com) – In just a few days, California will wrap up its recall election targeting Governor Gavin Newsom, a scheme orchestrated by a Far Right […]

By BENJAMIN F. CHAVIS JR. NNPA   I congratulate New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee, Eric Adams. He will be a strong new mayor of our nation’s largest and most diverse city. Adams has promised […]

  By MARC H. MORIAL National Urban League   (TriceEdneyWire.com) – “We cannot return to the classroom and do things the same as they have always been done and expect to see a different outcome. […]

  By SALLY C. PIPES Pacific Research Institute   “Everyday low prices” are coming to health care. Walmart recently launched its own analog insulin, a synthetic form of the hormone that’s genetically modified to be […]