Category: Editorial/Opinion

By Ben Jealous Guest Column My grandmother was born in 1916 on the same red Virginia ground where her grandfather was born enslaved. She lived to 105. She carried the weight of what her family […]

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column Here is a question or a series of thoughts for my dear readers about your opinions regarding the recent arrest of a juvenile girl on three charges, with one […]

By Ben Jealous Guest Column Recently, I drove from my father’s birthplace in Biddeford, Maine, to my mother’s birthplace in Petersburg, Virginia. Two different towns. Two different states. Two different regions. And yet, oddly, just […]

By June Boyd Guest Column To give a lesson in black history, on June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers were abducted and murdered by the KKK, only for their attempt to register Black […]

By Carla Thomas The Truth Contributor I don’t know what’s worse, the Supreme Court’s decision to weaken protections against racial gerrymandering and make it harder to protect majority-Black voting districts, or the response from State […]

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling that the blatantly partisan gerrymandering in Tennessee, which for all intensive purposes neutered a heavily Black voting bloc and now results […]

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor A child miseducated is a child lost.  – John F. Kennedy Elections have consequences — and every election also has winners and losers. Last week’s primary […]

By Ben Jealous Ona Judge escaped George Washington once. Now the federal government is trying to make her disappear again. I teach in Philadelphia, a short walk from the site of the President’s House. George […]

By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor   The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.  – John Lewis I did my early voting after church on Sunday. The line at the […]