Malcolm X's mother, Louise Norton Little (1897-1989). Louise Little was a brilliant woman, multi-language speaking, and had been for years, with her husband Earl Little, a devoted activist of Marcus Garvey's Pan African Movement (Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities…

When I heard that they were turning the best-selling book ‘The Reason I Jump’ into a full-length documentary film I was SO excited. For those who haven’t read the book, yet it was written in 2007 written from the perspective of a nonspeaking…

Where Are The Muslim On This Issue

Pollster Dalia Mogahed shares surprising data on Egyptian people's attitudes and hopes before the Arab Spring -- with a special focus on the role of women in sparking change.

End of day one...

Near the end of his inaugural address yesterday, President Biden named six crises that the U.S. faces: the virus, climate change, growing inequality, racism, America’s global standing and an attack on truth and democracy.

“Any one…

          Kamala Harris SWA (Sista With Attitude)!

I Will Rise Up…

Sonia Sotomayor will swear in Kamala Harris on Inauguration Day.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in on Wednesday by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a ceremony in which the first woman of color to become vice president will take her oath from the first woman of color to sit on the Supreme Court.

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Choose your side, there’s no in-between’ — Professor Eddie Glaude Jr.  breaks down the troubling history of white mob violence in the U.S.

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (born 1968) is an American academic. He is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where he is also the Chair of the Center for African American Studies and the Chair of the Department of African American Studies.[1] He is the author of the 2020 book Begin Again,…

The Second Great Migration 

ATLANTA — A year ago this week, I packed some bags and left New York City for Atlanta.

I’d lived in New York for 26 years. The city made me feel awake and alive — buildings tickling the sky, trains snaking underfoot. There was a seductive muscularity to the city, a feeling of riding the razor between your destiny and your demise.

I had…