By Marc Morial
Housing Is A Human Right Presidential Candidates Must Focus On
Photo: Lorie Shaull. Flickr Rep. Ilhan Omar summed it best this way while introducing the Homes for All Act, which expands public housing stock ...
Black Face, Jim Crow Terrorism, & White Privilege
A 1900 William H. West minstrel show poster. Photo: Wikimedia.org As a Black student in overwhelmingly White schools in Louisiana, I faced ...
Aretha Franklin Tribute: Hail to the Queen of Soul and Social Justice Fighter
Aretha Franklin singing at Obama’s inauguration. Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama put it best when they said, in a joint ...
National Urban Leaague: Tackling the Pay-gap for Black Women
Urban League’s Marc Morial. Photo-Flickr. With the 2018 National Urban League Conference focused on the theme of “Save Our Cities: Powering the Digital Revolution,” ...
National Urban Leaague: Tackling the Pay-gap for Black Women
Urban League’s Marc Morial. Photo-Flickr. With the 2018 National Urban League Conference focused on the theme of “Save Our Cities: Powering the Digital Revolution,” ...
Simeon Booker Defined Peerless Journalism
Simeon Booker. Image-YouTube This is how the journalist Simeon Booker described an account of the Civil Rights Movement: “Glaring down at us from the ...
Education: The Great Socio-economic Equalizer
Photo by: photoo.uk via freeforcommercialuse.org [Commentary] New pencils, new books, an apple for the teacher, and unlimited hope for a boundless future – it’s ...
Honoring Harriet Tubman is Right in era of Resurgent White Supremacy
Trump. After his disgraceful embrace of white supremacy in Charlottesville now his Treasury Secretary back off from honoring Tubman. Photo: Gage Skidmore-Flickr. Former U.S. ...
Harvey: Instead of Second Guessing, Let’s All Help Victims of Texas and Louisiana Calamity
Rescuing infant survivor. Photo: FEMA News Former President Obama put it best when he said: “During difficult times like this, we’re reminded that we’re ...
Charlottesville–Trump’s Army of Deplorables
Deplorable-in-Chief, Trump–Eight months into a failed presidency. Photo: Gage Skidmore-Flickr. President Donald Trump usually is quick to share his response to any event – ...
