Property tax reforms can bring racial justice

Every February, Black History Month provides an opportunity for us to remember the past and confront how history continues to shape our future. One place where the legacy of...

Jesse Jackson was an inspirational figure for many

There is always a pioneer. In American politics in the last decades of the 20th century, Jesse Jackson, preacher, civil right leader and lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr,...

Black History Month

Black History Month — When memory becomes a moral test

Imagine opening a history textbook and not seeing the faces of key contributors to America's story. Every February, America observes Black History Month. It started in 1926 as Negro...

Halle Berry says Oscars not 'designed' for Black women

Halle Berry has said the time since her historic Oscars win in 2002 for Monster’s Ball has “forced” her to accept the “system is not really designed for” for...

White House will celebrate the Black History Month

The Trump administration will celebrate Black History Month at the White House on Thursday, preserving a tradition at the same time that President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the...

Black Americans still suffer worse health facilities

One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients. There was Joshua McCray, 69, a public bus driver who, four...

Badenoch, black leader of Conservatives

It should not perhaps come as a surprise that Nigerian-origin Kemi Badenoch should have become the leader of the Conservative Party after the Indian-origin Rishi Sunak. Both of them...

Afro-descendants’ eco moves in focus

After years of being excluded from global agreements, representatives of people of African descent see the United Nations’ biodiversity summit in Colombia as their best chance yet to be...

Obama touches raw nerve of Black voters

Former US President Barack Obama, and the first Black to have held the highest executive post, expressed frankly his apprehension that Black men are not fully supportive of Democrat...