America’s coming White backlash?
As one of the defining patterns in U.S. history, a White backlash to Black progress is as American as apple pie. Many hope this can...
Hope, hype aren’t enough to give Black votes to Biden
Coming out of their convention, Democrats are braced to attack an embattled president trailing in the polls, who is pushing fears of a stolen...
The Great Black Debate 2020: How do you hold someone accountable who already has your support and vote?
Hate it or love it, like it or not—Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., 77, and Kamala Devi Harris, 55, are the presumptive 2020 Democratic Party...
Woke, Black & Angry: Election 2020 Matters But Young Activists Say Don’t Stop There
As America stands on the brink of collapse with a pandemic she has no idea how to handle, a financial crisis, a looming housing...
A police shooting, targeting of a tourism Mecca, increase threats, stress, and a city’s sense of crisis
by Naba’a Muhammad, Starla Muhammad and Tariqah Shakir-Muhammad CHICAGO—According to the mayor and the city’s top cop, the police shooting of a 20-year-old Black male...
Trauma, terror and Black America’s race-based torment
It was a particularly hot August day, temperatures topping out at 95 degrees in Aurora, Colo., as screams of children pierced the sky. Desperate...
Rogue cops terrorize Blacks, Latinos, charge California activists and advocates
Black and Brown communities long plagued by racial profiling have long complained that police officers are the biggest gangs. They have complained of targeting,...
Exposed on the world stage: U.S. police violate human rights at home
America loves to operate as the world’s moral police, but now, the world is watching her. At least, according to a recent report by Amnesty...
Presidential desperation and the unraveling of government?
WASHINGTON—In his desperate efforts to stay in office, and to even avoid prosecution if he is no longer president, Donald J. Trump is literally...
Black women rising to political prominence in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS—One day after the Democratic primary for the upcoming November elections, hundreds of supporters gathered at a press conference to celebrate the accomplishments...