Year: 2026

By Stacy M. Brown — Simmons is leading a group of producers who, on Sunday, April 5, will premiere “Def Comedy Jam Presents: Healing Through Laughter,” a marathon fundraiser hosted by Cedric the Entertainer. The program will […]

NNPA NEWSWRE — While Washington, D.C.’s Metrorail has been largely emptied of its professional class of passengers, reductions in the city’s bus service have made it difficult for its darker and poorer customers—many of whom […]

How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise by Eduardo Porter When journalist Eduardo Porter moved to Los Angeles in the 90s and started writing about the city, he realized race was everywhere — and that it determined […]

By Jack Kelly  On Thursday, the Department of Labor reported that a staggering and record-setting 6,648,000 initial unemployment claims were filed for the week ending March 28. This is an aggressive increase in the numbers from the […]

By Nefeteria Brewster South African law enforcement officers are under scrutiny after videos of them assaulting citizens went viral following a call for the country to lock down due to the coronavirus. Since South Africa […]

By Theodore R. Johnson Marcia Chatelain, Kenisha Grant, Ted Johnson, and Mark Whitaker discuss the history of the Great Migration and how it reverberates in mass incarceration and voter suppression today. MICHAEL WALDMAN: Throughout the […]

This man needs a leader. Written By Royce Dunmore People are completely fed up with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp after witnessing his handling of the coronavirus pandemic in Georgia. Stacey Abrams naturally came up in the conversation, considering she […]

By Erik Pedersen   HBO and Netflix each have a pair of programs among those receiving the 13th annual Television Academy Honors, which were announced today. The prizes recognize six exceptional television programs that are impacting society through […]

BY DERRICK Z. JACKSON UConn, for example, graduates 100% of its basketball athletes Ellen Tripp, director of the University of Connecticut’s Student-Athlete Success Program, gets angry when she hears stale, patronizing reasons that the university and […]

By Charles M. Blow     Pre-existing health conditions leave one group particularly vulnerable. x Credit…Desiree Rios for The New York Times Early Monday morning the email arrived. The subject line began, “ALARM AT THE GATE,” […]