| Feb 5, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI lead the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, America’s Black think tank. When we opened our doors in 1970, there were only 1,469 Black elected officials in office across the United States. Today, there are over 10,000. These milestones are historic, yet...
| | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s a trend that’s been building for a few years now. Books by predominantly Black authors are being banned around the country. School curricula have been amended to skip the history lesson on slavery and racism. Critical Race Theory (CRT) — and anything that vaguely...
| Jan 29, 2025 | RoundupHas it really only been a week and a half? This week — yesterday, really — the Trump administration threw the entire federal government into chaos by trying to freeze an enormous swath of federal spending before public outcry and a court ruling forced them...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump caused panic and chaos when his Office on Management and Budget ordered a sweeping freeze on federal funding for programs American families rely on. The backlash was fast and fierce as programs ranging from Medicaid to Meals on Wheels to cancer...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen my multigenerational family of six evacuated our home this January, we wondered if the fires visible from our front porch would engulf our house as we fled. Text reports of friends losing homes bombarded my phone as we settled into a cramped hotel room for the...
