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When the Blues Hit Home: Why Family Values Require Family Wages

Atlanta Daily World - October 26, 2025

MAGA voters and Democrats alike know workers need $25 an hour. Acting on that consensus is how we save American families. By Ben Jealous The old...

EXCLUSIVE: Rev. Al Sharpton on Trump’s Agenda, DEI Rollbacks, and the Fight for Democracy

Special to The Chicago Defender - February 27, 2025

Photo Credit: Facebook By Alexander Efird & James S. Bridgeforth, Ph.D. It has been just one month since Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the...

Dr. Van Johnson’s Battle Against Racial Injustice: The Legal Lynching of a Black Psychiatrist in Anderson, Indiana

Inez Woody - February 26, 2025

Van Johnson and the memoir that tells his tragic story, Framed and Profiled (Photo Provided). BHM Our Ancestors: Honoring the Pioneers – Stories about our...

Malcolm X: 60 Years Later, the Fire Still Burns

Word In Black - February 23, 2025

By Mustafa Ali This article was originally published on Word In Black. Sixty years since the bullets flew inside the Audubon Ballroom, the echoes of Malcolm X’s...

Trump’s Funding Freezes and Clawbacks: Illegal, Stupid, Dangerous

Ben Jealous - February 22, 2025

Public Domain Photo “Panic, confusion, and anger.” That’s how BlueGreen Alliance president Jason Walsh described to CNN the state that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant awardees...

The Economics of Emancipation

Special to The Chicago Defender - February 21, 2025

By Jesse Jackson Jr. and Dr. Michael B. Jones Emancipation of the January 6 Insurrectionists When Donald Trump pardoned 1,500 American citizens, fulfilling a campaign promise...

Dying to Wear the Badge: Black Police Recruits at Risk

Stacy Brown, NNPA - February 20, 2025

This combination of images shows, top row, from left, Christopher David Murray, Cody Olafson, Cornelius Anderson, Timothy Guyer, Edgar Ordonez, Kevin Reaux, Thomas Coulter,...

J. Pharoah Doss: Trump revoked LBJ’s Equal Employment Opportunity Act?

J. Pharoah Doss - February 18, 2025

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, look on, July 2, 1964. Photo: Cecil...

The Climate-Driven Insurance Crisis

Ben Jealous - February 15, 2025

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons The climate crisis is costing all of us a lot of money in our everyday lives. Higher utility bills. Higher healthcare...

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

Word In Black - February 15, 2025

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...