Opinion
Rev. Jackson taught us that progress happens because people organize, apply pressure, and refuse to accept second-class citizenship as permanent.
Jesse Jackson did not just run for president in 1984 and 1988; he rewired the political imagination of this country.
The Trump administration has a disturbing obsession with making what they probably think are cute and clever names for ICE operations.
ICE agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos to lure his family members out of their home in a Minneapolis suburb on Tuesday.
This is just another moment in the history of the theft of Black ingenuity, generating actual value that someone else is positioned to collect on.
Law enforcement leaders say ICE has violated the civil rights of U.S. citizens, citing incidents in which they have pulled guns on off-duty police officers of color, demanding proof of citizenship.
It’s a question that immediately raises a deeper historical one. Not just whether white participation ever existed, but what it actually meant, and what people imagine it would mean now.
The answer is not a single protest or a single election. It is a commitment to building leverage because what we are up against is not just a president or a party; it is a project.
Protestors showed up at the church of a pastor who is also an ICE field director. Things didn't go well, and Don Lemon got blamed for it all.
When Claudette Colvin left this world on January 13th, with her went a library, a recipe box, and a curriculum we still don't understand how to follow.
What Trump and so many of his supporters and conservatives refuse to accept is that Black people can’t be racist, nor can “reverse discrimination” exist in America.
This wasn’t just grief for a gospel composer who “went to glory.” This was a collective recognition of what a single song has done for us as a people.