opinion

Two Systems of Justice: How Success Makes Leaders of Color Targets

JEALOUS: American Men Have Been In Crisis for Generations. A Remedy from 1879 Offers Hope.

JOHNSON: We Have Walked This Road Before

MORIAL: The Path Toward Liberty Is Being Lit and Led by Black Women

ROBINSON: 57,000 Empty Apartments and Not a Word of Apology

JEALOUS: What Two Fathers Talk About at Lunch

MILLIGAN: In the Fight for Voting Rights, Winning Is Not the Same as Victory

JOHNSON: There’s a Storm Coming

GUILLERMO: The Philippines Isn’t Foreign When Your Family Still Lives There

GOLDSON: The Education Ecosystem Our Students Need

ODUNTAN: One by One — The Slow Disappearance of Black Voices in Mainstream Media

TILGHMAN: Back to School Means Showing Up — Every Child Deserves an Advocate

JEALOUS: Count Them. Then Hire Them.


BANDELE: The Black August Legacy

MORRISSETTE: What Isn’t Measured Can Be Denied — A Call to Defend the EEO-1 Before Aug. 24

JEALOUS: What Shall I Do With My Boy?

ASANTE-MUHAMMAD/BRENSON: Why the Senate Must Strengthen Its Leadership Pipeline

DEBNAM: The Same Communities Targeted Again and Again

ODUNTAN: From Selma to South Los Angeles — An Unsung Voting Rights Foot Soldier Says the Fight Isn’t Over

MORIAL: Affordability for All — It’s Time to Rescue the American Dream

GUILLERMO: When Politicians Start Sanitizing One Chapter of History, They’re Coming After The Whole Book

SHAW: How Black WNBA Players Became Collateral Damage in the Caitlin Clark Culture War

ELMOGRABI: Accountable Gold in Africa — A New Initiative

WARREN: ‘The Trusted Messenger’ and the Black Vote



FARR: Can Shawn Carter Live?

REDMOND: Black Women Deserve Equal Pay. Unions Help Make It Happen.

WALKER: Trump Shell Game Biggest Grift in World History

KIMBER: No More Broken Promises to Black America

HARRIS: South Carolina Puts Black Voters in the Driver’s Seat for 2028

MALVEAUX: Haiti, TPS and the Politics of Punishment

WARREN: The Two July Fourths — Which Did You Celebrate?

EDNEY: Kalshi’s ‘Segregation Market’ Turns Black Suffering Into a Betting Line

MORIAL: The Bicentennial Was Healing. ‘Freedom 250’ Was a Narcissistic Embarrasment.

ANTHONY: America’s New Sign at the Border — ‘Welcome — Whites Only’

MALVEAUX: For Sale — Children’s Nutrition

MORIAL: Citizenship Is a Birthright We’ve Earned and Intend to Keep

The Head of Household Illusion: The Tax Break That Skips the Mothers It Was Built For 

JEALOUS: A Nation That Forgets Its History Is Bound

MORIAL: The Supreme Court’s Willful Blindness in the Face of Racial Animus

MALVEAUX: America at 250 — Patriotism Without Truth Is Propaganda

WATKINS: The Truth is the Light

TILGHMAN: We Can Do Better — Strengthening Democracy in Prince George’s County

MALVEAUX: The Cuba I Cannot Unsee



MYERS: Reducing Anger and Stopping Violence by Inspiring Self-Worth

LANE: East of the River Voters Demand Action on Key Issues

LAZARRE: Who Is Pro-Democracy Content Actually Reaching?

JEALOUS: Hey, Cousin — What I Saw on Juneteenth at Andrew Jackson’s Plantation

MYERS: Black Women Leaders Are Not Burnt Out, We Are Being Extracted From

HARRIS: Black Women Can Still Lead Democratic Tickets Despite Losses

RILEY: Preserved By Purpose — Withdrawals from the Bank of Frank

HENDERSON: Juneteenth, America at 250, and the Hole in the Soul of Our Democracy

MORIAL: The Trump Administration’s Misaligned Priorities

BROWN: Juneteenth Reflection

JOHNSON: Our Voices — When Armed Power Appears at the Ballot Box

GORE: Mental Health Crisis Among Black Men — A Growing Concern

MALVEAUX: Brown’s Unfinished Promise

MARSHALL: When Politics Intersects With Professional Sports

MALVEAUX: The Slush Fund Presidency

INGRAM: Using Art, Healing and Community to Transform Mental Health Dialogue

RICCARDI: Professors Reflect on Black Progress, and What the Next Decade Demands

HORNE: The Politics of the New Civil Law Wars

CHAVIS: Ensuring the Freedom-Fighting Legacy of Dr. Clarence B. Jones

JEALOUS: A ‘Main Street’ Bank Bill That Would Really Hurt Main Street

TERRELL: Joy of Educating Black Boys

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

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

WILLIAMS: The King and the Would-Be King

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

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

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

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

MARSHALL: American Robber Barons Still Exist

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

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

REYNOLDS: Chatbots Cannot be Marketed as a Junior Jesus

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

PITTMAN: Systemic Misdiagnosis, Neurodivergence, and Educational Equity

JEALOUS: The Color of Trust

MORRISSETTE: A New Economic Civil Rights Struggle — Disappearing Data

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

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

MALVEAUX: Faith Without the Noise

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

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

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

MARSHALL: Keeping the Black Vote Energized

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

MORIAL: The Crisis Calling From Inside the House

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

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

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

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

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

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

MALVEAUX: From Reconstruction to the SAVE Act

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

KING: The Future of Work