Not Your Ordinary Shutdown – Lives at Risk
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux —
The federal government shut down on October 1, and the impasse between Congressional Democrats and Republicans suggest...
NUL Declares’ State of Emergency’ for Black America in 2025 Report
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By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The report also warns of a rise in digital extremism. “During the...
Who gains when the economy implodes?
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux —
The United States economy is cruising for a bruising. Inflation keeps ticking up thanks to, among other...
Making Communities Safer and Stronger
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By James J. Nolan, Natasha C., Pratt-Harris, Kevin Daniels, Paul C., Archibald, Henry H. Brownstein, Kimberly Glanville, and Raiana Davis, Fall...
Beyond the Control of Free Speech
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How the death of Charlie Kirk exposed so much more.
A View From the Battlefield by Jamala Rogers —
The murder of MAGA-mentored...
¡Presente Assata, Presente!
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Many will tell her story, but she told her story — and ours — best. By Herb Boyd — The name...
Uganda opposition leader Bobi Wine cleared to run against Museveni in 2026
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The singer-turned-politician is hoping to unseat longtime president, who is seeking a seventh term.
By Caolán Magee, Al Jazeera —
Ugandan opposition leader...
Fearing a Second Blacklist?
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The March on Washington shows how artists, through solidarity and courageous love, helped bring the last one to an end.
By Ben...
When Presidents Can’t Take a Joke, Democracy Suffers
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By Ben Jealous —
A Midwestern schoolteacher once told her class that a sense of humor is a sign of intelligence. “Look...
DC and Chocolate Cities in Danger
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Join us in person or via livestream for an Emergency Summit: DC and Chocolate Cities in Danger — “Putting I.C.E. on...
Voting Rights Anniversary — By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD
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By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD —
August 6, 2025 marked the 60th anniversary of the ratification of the Voting Rights Act of...
Being Our Own First-Responders and Self-Savers
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
It is a fundamental teaching and uncontested contention in Kawaida philosophy that there is an endless library...
DOJ’s Threat to Asheville Exposes Hypocrisy in America’s War Against Black Reparations
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By Nkechi Taifa, Esq. —
The U.S. Department of Justice has fired a dangerous shot across the bow of Asheville, North Carolina,...
Criminalizing Dissent
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux —
Activist and Code Pink (a pro-peace feminist organization) founder Medea Benjamin was simply walking the halls of...
Chicago’s Streets Still Moving to America’s Historic Rhythms
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By Ben Jealous —
I started out this year, 2025, in Chicago, honored to give the Martin Luther King Day address at...
Ethiopia’s controversial new dam
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Ethiopia will tomorrow inaugurate Africa’s largest dam, a major source of electricity and national zeal for the country, but one that...
Authoritarian wave in US shows democracy’s fragility, South African scholar says
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The racist upswell in the US looks “clearer from the outside,” says South African philosopher Nuraan Davids.
By George Yancy , Truthout...
A Courageous Questioning in These Times
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
The arrival of September 7th easily brings to mind and memory for Us the 60th anniversary of...
Dr. Julianne Malveaux at Rep. Al Green’s Slavery Remembrance Breakfast
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Dr. Julianne Malveaux — economist, author, educator, and Commissioner with the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) — delivered remarks at...
Welcome Back, Cowards
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Members of Congress have slithered their way back to Washington, many Democrats continuing to silently cower in the face of injustice,...
Policing in America – Ronald Hampton on History, Reform, and IBW’s Police Justice &...
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Ronald Hampton, Chairman of IBW’s Police Justice and Accountability Task Force, retired veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department, and former executive...
Why the Smithsonian’s story of slavery matters for America’s future
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In a recent Newsweek opinion column, Kevin Powell draws on personal experience and cultural history to argue that America must tell...
Remember Black Women on Labor Day
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux —
The French philosopher Albert reportedly said, “Without work all life is rotten but when work is soulless,...
A New Nasty Noxious Sheriff’s in Town
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
The living and live-streamed tragedy titled “Trump in Ignorance, Anger and Revenge” continues to play itself out...