| Jan 26, 2026 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyFrom 1920 until 1938, a flag on Fifth Avenue in New York City proclaimed an uncomfortable reality to passers-by on New York’s busy streets: “A man was lynched yesterday.” In the South, where Jim Crow held a vice grip on the government 60 years after the end of the...
| Jan 21, 2026 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIn the mid-1960s, I joined the freedom movement in the South as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Georgia, Mississippi, and Arkansas. Those were heady years, and I am proud of my small role in the great achievements of that time. Our...
| May 3, 2023 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracySome know the late Harry Belafonte for his genre-jumping music and silky baritone voice, epitomized in his classic 1956 album Calypso. Others swoon over his performances in films like the 1954 musical Carmen Jones. In activist circles, he’s revered for supporting his...
| Jan 11, 2023 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyEvery year, the arrival of the Martin Luther King holiday calls us to pause and reflect on Dr. King’s legacy. And every year, I’m struck by the same thing: as sincere as we are in our reverence for Dr. King, we keep learning the wrong lessons not just from his life...
| Jun 1, 2022 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn the days since the Uvalde shooting, media outlets have shared heartbreaking images of the small victims as they were cherished in life. As Americans, we’re forced to look into their young, innocent eyes and accept our shame that we failed to protect them. What we...
