By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.President and CEO, National Newspaper Publishers Association As we approach the 55th NFL Superbowl next Sunday in Tampa, Florida amidst the continued national spread of COVID-19, I believe that the time has come for the close-knit group of team owners in the National Football League (NFL)...
D.C. Must Have Statehood
By Julianne Malveaux The District of Columbia has 715,000 residents, more than the states of Wyoming and Vermont. We pay taxes, just like citizens in all 50 states. But our citizens are second-class citizens. We have no voting representation in the House of Representatives or the United States Senate. We...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING: Was the Insurrection an Inside Job?
By Julianne Malveaux If you watched the disgraceful invasion of the United States Capitol and the horrific destruction that took place on Jan. 6, you observed a legion of limited-intelligence low-life louts. But you’d be mistaken if that’s all you thought of the Trump-incited mob. Those people could not have...
We Were Guinea Pigs for the U.S.: It Isn’t Just Tuskegee
By Julianne Malveaux People who don't know Black history have probably heard more about the Tuskegee syphilis "experiment" in the last month than they have in their whole lives. The chattering class has used the debacle of allowing hundreds of Black men live with untreated syphilis to monitor its effects...
The Biden Cabinet Mainstream, Moderate, Middling
By Julianne Malveaux Julianne Malveaux I neither expected sparks nor extreme surprises as President-elect Joe Biden begin to announce his Cabinet. I did expect diversity, and we've seen it. But I didn't expect the number of Obama-era retreads to be included in this Cabinet. As I write this in mid-December,...
Exhale, Inhale, Roll Your Sleeves Up
It took five days for the 2020 election to be called for former Vice President Joe Biden. Five days with me peeled to the television and the internet. Five days holding my breath. Five days, meditating and praying for strength. I could not imagine four more years of Trump. I...
Resistance to Racial Equity — California’s Proposition 16
By Julianne Malveaux (Trice Edney Wire)--President-elect Joe Biden has included working toward racial equity in his administration’s agenda. They outline how he will expand opportunities for Black folk and other people of color. Specifically, his Build Back Better document includes a 20-page report titled, The Biden Plan to Build Back Better...
Monsters are Scary—So are Brilliant Black Women
By Julianne Malveaux Malveaux I was frightened of monsters when I was a child. Not so sure why, but my brother, who loved to plague me, used to tell me they were lurking under my bed. I shook, and I shivered, and I cried for fear that one of those...
Suffering Continues While More COVID-19 Aid Remains Stymied in Congress
By Charlene Crowell As of mid-September, at least 197,000 people died from COVID-19 according to Johns Hopkins University. Beyond these fatalities, the number of COVID-related cases diagnoses reached 6.5 million people and continues to rise. Beyond the health effects, according to the the U.S. Census Bureau, as of Aug. 31, over 80...
Black Lives Matters T-shirts and Masks – Who Profits?
By Julianne Malveaux I always smile when I see Black Lives Matter T-shirts until I saw one gracing the back of a White man who had on both a BLM T-Shirt and a MAGA (Make America Great Again) hat. I started to either take a photo because I knew somebody...