opinion

ROLLING: Should Our Black Scholar Athletes Give Up Their Opportunities?

SNYDER: Gov. Wes Moore’s Veto of SB 459 Misses the Reality of Modern Local Media

DIXON: Don’t Let Misinformation Undermine Proven Crime-Fighting Tools

MORIAL: Mississippi Made a Commitment to Its Kids. It’s Time We All Do the Same.

THOMPSON/CHANG: D.C. Needs Real Solutions, Not Just Real Talk

WILLIAMS: The King and the Would-Be King

THOMPSON: Freedom Is Never Free — And Neither Is Our Debt to Those Who Secured It

REYNOLDS: Chatbots Cannot be Marketed as a Junior Jesus

BANKS: Alabama’s CHOOSE Act — A Promise and a Responsibility

TILGHMAN: Parents Are a Child’s First Teacher — As a Father, I’m Learning Too

MORIAL: When Supreme Court Gets the Facts Wrong, Democracy Pays the Price

MARSHALL: American Robber Barons Still Exist

MARSHALL: Are We Really in the Same Boat? South Carolina Redistricting and the Limits of Coalition Politics

JEALOUS: The Color of Trust

BAILEY: Wars and Rumors of Wars — The Unspoken Fear Shadowing International Students at HBCUs

MORIAL: The WSJ Got It Wrong — It’s This Administration Who Has a Jim Crow Fantasy

MORRISSETTE: A New Economic Civil Rights Struggle — Disappearing Data

PITTMAN: Systemic Misdiagnosis, Neurodivergence, and Educational Equity

ASIAMAH/ASANTE-MUHAMMAD: Vanguard’s Data Sound an Alarm on Financial Fragility in the U.S. 

HARRIS: Even Under Attack, Black Southern Voters Can Deliver the Senate for Democrats

LACEY: From Preaching to Practice — Architects of Our AI Future

MALVEAUX: Faith Without the Noise

JEALOUS: Ona Judge Escaped Once. Now They Want to Erase Her.

MALVEAUX: The Future of Work Is Already Here — and It’s Not What We Were Promised

MORIAL: The Crisis Calling From Inside the House

MARSHALL: Keeping the Black Vote Energized

MONTGOMERY: Black Families Stopped Waiting for Public Schools. Now They’re Building Their Own.

ASANTE-MUHAMMAD: Representation at Risk — The Fragile Progress of Black Political Power

GLASSIC: Raising Auto Insurance Mandates Will Make Driving in D.C. More Expensive — and Less Fair

TILGHMAN: For Families Like Mine, Data Privacy Is Personal

LOVE: Regime Change and the Roots of U.S. Hostility With Iran

MORIAL: The Postal Service Should Be Funded — Rain, Snow, Sleet or Stalemate

SALEEM: D.C.’s ‘Teen Takeovers’ Are a Warning Sign

WHYTE: How You Stop a Prescription Medicine Is as Important as How You Start

MALVEAUX: From Reconstruction to the SAVE Act

KING: The Future of Work

EPSTEIN: Discrimination in City Contracts

WEATHERSBY: Trump’s Policies Hurt Black America — and Everyone Else

O’KELLY: Meta Deleted Me. I Still Don’t Know Why. And Neither Will You.

CANNICK: The Resistance Needs Rent Money

CHAVIS: The Black Press Puts Leadership on Camera

MORIAL: White House College Sports ‘Reforms’ Would Simply Codify Inequity

MORIAL: Born in America Means American, Period

WILLIAMS: Where Are Our Three Branches of Government?

JEALOUS: The Tipped Wage is a Legacy of Slavery. Chicago is Right to End It.

REDMOND: One Hundred Years of Black Workers Telling the Truth

MARSHALL: ‘It’s a New World. It’s the Same Constitution.’

JEALOUS: Could 2028 Be the Year the People Finally Pick the President?

MORIAL: The Save America Act is a Throwback to Jim Crow Voter Suppression

MARSHALL: Merit-Based Promotions Should Also Be About Fairness

MALVEAUX: The People Are Not Subjects

JEALOUS: Most Americans Now Live at the Same Address

MORIAL: You Deserve to Know Who You’re Sending to Washington

CHAVIS: Black America’s 2026 Urban Challenges — Mayor Mamdani Case Study

WILLIAMS: Finally Giving Black Women Their Due

MARSHALL: Iran and Iraq are the Same Wars

TILGHMAN: The Real Work Begins After the IEP Meeting

With Expanded DCTAG, More D.C. Students Can Dream Big

WILLIAMS: Tuskegee Airmen’s Legacy Takes Flight Again

MARSHALL: America, Once the Shining City on the Hill

HARRIS/McDANIEL: Wes Moore’s AI Warning to Black America

MORIAL: Black America Is Already In a Recession

MALVEAUX: From Felton to Alsobrooks: The Uneven Rise of Women in the U.S. Senate

MAGEE: America Is Experiencing the Age of the Dominus — Our Moment of Truth

KING: Economic Empowerment Has Always Been a Part of Black History

HOLDER: Women of Color Shape Our Past and Future

JOHNSON: Beyond the Battlefield — Advancing Equity for Black Veterans in D.C.

JEALOUS: The White Privilege Predicament

MALVEAUX: Women — The Backbone of the Movement

MORRISSETTE: The Cost of War

JEALOUS: As We Prepare to Lay Rev. Jackson to Rest, I’m Thinking About Words That Build Coalitions

GREENSPAN: D.C.’s School Mental Health System Works — Don’t Dismantle It

MARSHALL: Jesse Is Gone, So It’s ‘Next Man Up’

HARRIS/McDANIEL: The Democratic Mayor Who’s Getting Black Men Right

DEL’ROSARIO: What We Protect When We Vote

TILGHMAN: Why Safe Passage Is Personal — and Why It’s About All of Our Children

REYNOLDS: All Must Die, But Legends Live On

MORIAL: Honoring the Trailblazer, Dr. Norman C. Francis

MALVEAUX: The Rotunda Is Too Small for Rev. Jesse Jackson

DANIELS: ‘All Boots on the Bridge’ State of Emergency Without Urgency in Black America

MORRISETTE: Tariff Whiplash and a Rising Black Recession 

100 Years of Black History: Reclaiming Digital Health as Architects

DUMAS: The Slow Strangulation of Black Business Opportunity 

MALVEAUX: From Reconstruction to the SAVE Act — The Politics of Paperwork

FRENK: Why Patriotic USA Citizens are Sometimes Carrying Mexican Flags at Anti-ICE Protests

MORIAL: ICE Has Run Rogue. These Leaders Are Democracy’s Last Line

JEALOUS: How Dissidents and Survivors of Economic Collapse Taught Me to Believe in Bitcoin

CLYBURN: Here’s How We Fix ICE

JEALOUS: Rev. Jackson Lifted All of Us Higher

Advocates to D.C. Council: We Need New Leaders at PSC for Lower Ratepayer Bills, Not More Utility Handouts

SMITH: Locked Out of the Game — Why Access to Sports Media Matters to Local Communities

REYNOLDS: When a President Turns Dehumanization Into Policy

MORIAL: The Fight to Preserve Black History is a Fight to Save America

HARRIS/McDANIEL: Trump’s High Prices Are Costing Republicans Black and Brown Voters

MARSHALL: The Enthusiasm Gap No One Wants to Talk About

HARRIS/McDANIEL: Democrats Should Lead By Example on Gerrymandering

MORIAL: Immigration Enforcement Is Breaking Public Safety. Here’s the Fix

WILLIAMS: Taking Back Our Rights

JEALOUS: Black History Month and the Power That Holds Democracy Together

ASANTE-MUHAMMAD/PARKER: The Truth About Trump Accounts and Black Wealth