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What Americans Aren’t Learning About Juneteenth

Freedom Did Not Come on One Day: American Slaves Were Emancipated on Different Days, Months, and Years "19 Factual Truths About Juneteenth Every American Should...

This Juneteenth let’s build systems to protect those most impacted by harm

By Candace Moore This year’s annual celebration of Juneteenth, in contrast with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, challenges us to consider the difference...

Turn a Wall on Its Side, and It Becomes a Table

We have always been at our best when we welcomed the stranger. It is time to be at our best again. By Ben Jealous A friend...

The first trillionaire! What Elon Musk says about us

by Edmond W. Davis It may be what his rise says about the rest of us. On June 12, 2026, Musk crossed a financial threshold no...

Reconciling Jackson and Jackson

By Ben Jealous The party of Andrew Jackson has spent a decade running from him. It should keep the two things he got right. I was...

‘They need a two-thirds majority’: Redistricting fight ignites fears of power grab

By Stacy M. Brown Republican lawmakers across the South and beyond are rapidly redrawing congressional maps in a fierce mid-decade power grab that critics say...

The Color of Trust

By Ben Jealous In politics, fear has a color. For most of American history, that color has been Black. No ad has taught that lesson more brutally...

Cook County Deserves a Champion for Affordability in Fritz Kaegi

by Princess Shaw There’s an affordability crisis that has been identified on the West and South Side of Chicago, with too many families being priced...

Cook County Deserves a Champion for Affordability in Fritz Kaegi

by Princess Shaw There’s an affordability crisis that has been identified on the West and South Side of Chicago, with too many families being priced...

Wes Moore’s AI Warning to Black America

By Kevin Harris and Richard McDaniel When Amazon cuts 30,000 jobs and Black workers hold nearly 20% of the roles being eliminated while making up...