Editorials

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 […]

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 […]