Editorials

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 […]

By Nataki Garrett Myers Let’s start with the numbers, because America often values economic losses over human suffering. According to a 2020 Citigroup analysis, racism cost the United States economy $16 trillion over twenty years. […]

by Dexter Bridgeman The recent comments directed at former First Lady Michelle Obama by UFC fighter Josh Hokit were not only offensive and inappropriate, they were part of a troubling pattern that Black women in […]

by Glen Mollette The National Council of Churches says 15,000 churches are expected to close this year and 100,000 more churches are at risk of closing over the next few years.  Their reasoning is because younger […]

By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. | Florida’s 2026 gubernatorial race is beginning to take shape, and recent developments suggest that Democrat David Jolly is positioning his campaign to compete in every corner of the state. […]

By: Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher / San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Newspaper / Chairman of the Board of Directors, NNPA | As many states work through their Primary Elections, now is a good time […]

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled in Louisiana v. Callais that Louisiana’s congressional map, which created a second majority–Black district, constituted an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” and violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The decision outraged much of the Black […]

By Mary K. Canales When you see something that is not right, you must say something. You must do something. Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its […]

by Marc Morial (TriceEdneyWire.com) – “[N]either can we deny or diminish the delay with which both society and the Church came to denounce the scourge of slavery …  This constitutes a wound in Christian memory, one […]