Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 energized demands for police accountability, support for Black-owned businesses, and addressing the black-white wage gap, but a long-term movement is needed to make lasting change, focusing on factors such as home and business ownership, income, education, gun violence, family structure, and healthy and clean environments.
Category: Editorials
Posted inOpinion
Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Filibuster: A Beacon of Hope for the Democratic Party
Senator Cory Booker took the Senate floor for 25 hours to protest the Trump-Musk Administration’s damage and offer a new glimpse of hope to the Democratic party, reading letters from American citizens and advocating for the American people.
Posted inEnvironmental Justice
Climate Justice Isn’t Dead
Environmental justice programs are being dismantled by the Trump Administration, but Ryan Hathaway believes the backlash will fail and is working to preserve environmental justice efforts.
Posted inEducation
Why Libraries Are Still a Lifeline for Black K-12 Students
The American Library Association has released a report revealing a rise in efforts to censor books in libraries, often targeting books that focus on race, history, and identity.
Posted inHealth
HHS Staff Cuts Mean Uneasy Breathing in Black Communities
The federal Department of Health and Human Services has announced sweeping staff cuts, which will gut government programs that address asthma rates, smoking and health, global tuberculosis rates and control of tobacco products, potentially leading to a rise in preventable lung-related illnesses.
Posted inClimate Justice
Why 90°F With Humidity Could Soon Be a Death Sentence
Scientists have discovered that Black Americans are more vulnerable to extreme heat and humidity, with wet-bulb temperatures of 31 degrees Celsius or higher posing a significant threat to public health, particularly in major American cities with large Black populations.
Posted inOpinion
Editor Sherri Has Thoughts…
National Public Health Week begins today, with Texas awaiting the next measles update, while Texas schools are now anti-CRT and anti-DEI, and Trump’s tariffs are a tax that could be challenged in court.
Posted inNational
Trump Slaps Highest Tariff Yet on Small African Nation
President Trump has imposed a record-setting 50% reciprocal tariff on Lesotho and other African nations, in an effort to address long-standing trade imbalances that hurt American manufacturers, effectively ending the African Growth and Opportunity Act months ahead of schedule.
Posted inPolitics
Harris, Obama, and Booker Step Up as Resistance Against Trump Takes Shape
Former President Barack Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris have re-entered the public fray, joining other Democratic voices in confronting Republican President Donald Trump’s changes, with Obama offering one of his sharpest public critiques yet of Trump’s second administration.
Posted inEducation
College DEI Probes Undermine Black HS Success
Black students have made significant gains in high school graduation rates, but are still underrepresented in college, and the assumption that DEI policies have lowered academic standards is false and harmful.