Editorials

By Bobby R.  Henry, Sr | There are moments in history when a people must decide whether they will merely survive the storm or stand in the storm with courage, conviction, and purpose. We are […]

by Herb Boyd A few political commentators have suggested that the era of Jim Crow, that long, dark historical period when the rights of Black Americans were all but abrogated, has returned with a vengeance. […]

By Sylvia Ghazarian On Mothers’ Day we celebrate mothers for their strength and sacrifice. But May is also Mental Health Awareness Month, and we rarely talk about the systems that are breaking them and about […]

By Stacy M. Brown | Twenty-eight years ago, Camille Cosby wrote a column in a national newspaper that set off a firestorm of controversy. She had just buried her son, Ennis Cosby, killed on a […]

Aisha Winfrey | Los Angeles WAVE | Wire Report | WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, one of America’s most influential Black political leaders, says that some MAGA Republicans told him directly that slavery was a […]

By Kay Wicker | After backlash at the growing number of influencers entering traditional media spaces, Tabitha Brown, Jemele Hill, and more weigh in. Content creators and journalists are at war with one another again. After […]

by Laura Onyeneho | Defender Network Feminism is not about hating men. It never was. The word itself — rooted in the Latin femina, meaning woman — has carried, since its earliest recorded use in the 1890s, one […]

by ReShonda Tate | Defender Network It seems like an almost daily occurrence: Someone on social media renouncing the sorority or fraternity they once fought like hell to join. They offer a solemn video, a carefully […]

by John Warren This Saturday, March 28, 2026, millions of Americans will come out to participate in the third major No Kings Day Protest against the Presidency of Donald Trump. The last event drew more […]

Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) (left) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) by Dr. Julianne Malveaux In the more than two-century history of the United States Senate, Black women have been almost entirely absent. Today, for the […]