Editorials

Haiti is not an abstraction. Haiti is a nation whose pain has too often been treated as policy collateral, a people whose labor is welcomed when needed and whose lives are discounted when convenient. Now, […]

Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson speaks to police and youth attending a 5000 Role Models conference at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida on Nov. 1, 2022. (Jose A. Iglesias/Miami Herald/TNS By Rep. Frederica S. […]

It was like a “Tale of Two Cities”: The best of times and the Worst of Times. It was the best of times for the hundreds of immigrants that were sworn in as U.S. naturalized […]

by Aswad Walker | Houston Defender Facing historic setbacks, Black communities must build a 21st-century Underground Railroad for genuine geographic and/or systemic freedom. Credit: Gemini AI. We have arrived at a terrifyingly familiar crossroads. Over the […]

By Nate Scott The Jacksonville Free Press recently raised a question Black America cannot afford to ignore: when does inspiration become empowerment? For generations, our community has heard messages about faith, prosperity, ownership, boycotts, Black […]

by Dr. Glenn Mollette Delay is not always the best plan but you can’t do everything today. You can delay paying your utility bills a few days but you can’t delay for very long because […]

Gemini Photo by Reshonda Tate | Houston Defender Long before Black Americans held political power, built economic influence, or could count on equal protection under the law, we had something untouchable. We had our music. […]

By Sarah Bobrow-Williams Across the rural South, Black women continue to be diagnosed with cervical cancer too late—not because solutions are unknown, but because systems fail to reach, inform, and support them in time. Participatory […]

By Ben Jealous | Trice Edney Wire On Juneteenth, I traveled to the Hermitage, President Andrew Jackson’s plantation outside Nashville, to celebrate Black music. Neither Juneteenth nor Black music had ever been celebrated there before. […]

By Julianne Malveaux | I have never been much for flag-waving patriotism. I respect the rituals, and I understand why some people are moved by them. But my own relationship with patriotism has always been […]