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...
When Police Stop Black Men, The Effects Reach into Their Homes and Families
By Deadric T. Williams and Armon Perry By Deadric T. Williams and Armon Perry While much of the world was sheltering in place in the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans’ undivided attention was focused squarely on Minneapolis, Minnesota, where George Floyd was killed at the hands – and...
Lawlessness Disorder and America’s Mistreatment of its Black Citizens
By Julianne Malveaux When a 17-year-old White boy walks down the streets of Kenosha, Wisc., with a loaded automatic weapon, he is cheered and thanked by the police and offered a water bottle. No matter that he'd killed two people and wounded another. His attorney says it was self-defense, and...
Why is Fair Housing Still a Distant Journey for Black America?
By Charlene CrowellNNPA Newswire Public pressure to restore a key HUD rule has united civil rights, public and private sector stakeholders in a swelling and nearly daily drumbeat of concern calling for fair housing to be supported and HUD’s replacement rule be rescinded. On July 23 the rule known as Affirmatively...
The Impact of COVID-19 in Our Community: Let’s Not Put Our Health at Risk
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cite several possible reasons that Black Americans are more affected. One is that many of us live in more highly populated areas where it’s more difficult to practice physical distancing from one another. Many of us also live in...
No Economical Victory Lap
By Julianne Malveaux The June Employment Situation report, released on July 2, showed a continued decline in the unemployment rate. Thanks to coronavirus, the rate shot up to 14.7 percent in April and declined to 11.1 percent in June. About 4.8 million more people were on payrolls in June than...