African Americans have about $1.6 trillion in buying power. And we are the ultimate consumers, disproportionately spending on beauty and...

I can’t remember when I met Dr. Olivia Hooker, a Tulsa Massacre survivor, the first African American woman to serve in the Coast Guard...

The 47th President has attacked our government like a bull in a China closet.  He is doing his best to upend precedent and policy, as he...

What would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. do to celebrate his 96th birthday?  Would he sit on the sidelines and cheer the incoming president...

As our beloved 37th President’s body makes its way from Plains, Georgia to Atlanta to the US Capitol to lie in state, tens of thousands...

November 30 is Shirley Chisholm Day in New York, and it’s about time New York the nation, and indeed the world celebrates this Black...

Vice President ran a beautiful campaign.  She worked like a trojan, traveling from city to city, sometimes as many as three or four in a...

The man is tall, chocolate black, with a crown of silver hair.  He cocks his head some kind of way, like he is moving on purpose.  If I...

I was on a Black Women’s organizing call the other week, when one of the leaders challenged each of us to reach out to ten people to...

I love election season! I love the act of voting. I’ve been loving it since I was seven and my  mom let me pull the lever on her vote for...

I was sitting on a bench outside the Los Angeles Union Station, waiting for a friend to pick me up.  I had taken a lovely and relaxing...

Unequal access to high-quality health services is one of the most pervasive problems in America’s healthcare system. Far too often,...

BY JULIANNE MALVEAUX          I rarely think of Irish poets, but I could not help thinking of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) as I...

In an election year, Labor Day kicks off the official campaign season, and Vice President Kamala Harris kicked hers off with a bang.  She...

The Democratic National Convention, held August 19-22, was, among other things, an occasion of joy.  I’ve attended every Democratic...

The big news of this year’s Democratic Convention is, of course, the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris and the drama surrounding...

When did politics become such fun?  While Democrats will  roll up our sleeves to win the November election, in the meantime our...

Vice President Kamala Harris has a political career that is classic textbook.  She leveraged her legal training at the University of...

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) didn’t lose many battles, but she succumbed to pancreatic cancer on July 19.  She tackled the...

Since I don’t tell Republicans how to handle their business, I was somewhat indifferent to the Veepstakes that surrounded candidate...