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What RFK Jr. as Health Secretary Means for Black Well-Being

Photo Credit Gage Skidmore/Flickr By Jennifer Porter Gore Overview: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sworn in as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Oval Office...

Trump is Waging War on America and the American People

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are orchestrating a dangerous power shift, slashing government jobs, undermining national security, and disrupting the economy (AP via a...

Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: A Bold Rebuke of Trump’s America

Kendrick Lamar performing the Super Bowl LIX Half Time Show (Screenshot). BHM Our Voices: Perspectives on the Black Experience – Stories examining the issues, injustices,...

The Plot to Assassinate Black America

By Keith Boykin This article was originally published on Word In Black. “Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the issues and what’s...

AG Kwame Raoul, 18 States Sue Trump Administration Over Alleged Data Access Violations

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in suing the Trump administration over a policy they say illegally...

Trump Administration Sues Chicago Over Sanctuary Laws, Escalating Immigration Battle

Photo Credit: Getty Images The Trump administration has sued Chicago and Illinois, arguing that their sanctuary laws block federal immigration enforcement.  The lawsuit, which also targets...

James Bridgeforth: The Death of Equality: Trump’s War on DEI and the Fight to Save America

An anti-Trump rally in California (Photo Credit: Fabrice Florin/Flickr). By James S. Bridgeforth, Ph.D. It is nothing short of astonishing that the President of the United...

What Do We Do Now? 10 Action Steps for the Next 4 Years

By Keith Boykin This article was originally published on Word In Black. “Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black, examines the...

Ben Jealous: Trump’s America Last Agenda is a Knife in the Back of Working People

By Ben Jealous Donald Trump’s playbook has always been to campaign like a populist and govern like an oligarch. But it is still shocking just...

‘Keeping the Main Thing, the Main Thing’: Our Mission in a Democracy Under Siege

Mr. John Sengstacke, part owner and general manager of the Chicago Defender, one of the leading Negro newspapers (Photo Credit: Library of Congress). We African...