Ben Jealous
Jayland Walker: How Do We Stop Senseless Police Killings Of Black People?
Photos: YouTube\Wikimedia Commons Nearly six years to the day after beloved St. Paul, Minn., school cafeteria worker Philando Castile was fatally shot by a ...
Biden Rising To The Moment On Voting Rights. Can Congress?
Photos: Twitter\YouTube In the following piece, former NAACP president Ben Jealous praises President Biden for his Georgia voting rights speech but asks whether Congress ...
President Biden, You Must Protect The Voting Rights Of Those Who Elected You
Photos: YouTube\Facebook I was proud to work hard for the election of President Joe Biden. And I was proud to protest outside the Biden ...
Rep. Cori Bush Is Making “Good Trouble” In The Tradition Of John Lewis
Photos: YouTube\YouTube Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon who died last year, liked to tell activists that building a better world depended on ...
The U.S. Capital MAGA Attack And Right-Wing Republican Coverup Of Trump’s Terrorism
Photos: YouTube\Twitter The Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the U.S. Capitol was an assault on our democracy. So is the effort by congressional ...
Texas Democrats Following John Lewis’ Example By Getting Into “Good Trouble” To Stop Republican Voter Suppression
Photos: YouTube One year after the death of the great civil rights icon John Lewis, a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers is following Lewis’s ...
Trump’s Capitol Hill Insurrection And The New “Lost Cause” Of Right-Wing Republicans
Photos: YouTube A violent insurrection engulfed the U.S. Capitol just six months ago. One United States Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died and other ...
Happy Pride Month: Power and Pride to The People!
Happy Pride month to Black LGBTQ readers and to all of us who love LGBTQ people! June has become the traditional month for Pride ...
It’s Time for a Black Woman on the Supreme Court
Photo: Wikimedia Commons I am eager to see a brilliant Black woman serving as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. I hope to celebrate her ...
Ted Cruz’s Wildly Dishonest Shameless Defense of Voter Suppression
Photos: Wikimedia Commons\YouTube Sen. Ted Cruz is a shameless liar. And he isn’t even a very good one. Witness his latest dishonest defense of ...
