By Ben Jealous Guest Column This week’s column was supposed to be a celebration. A celebration of a wonderful little toy store in a joyful Midwestern town. A store that, heartbreakingly, is scheduled to close […]
By Ben Jealous Guest Column In Morrow County, Oregon, families are living through a crisis. According to a Rolling Stone investigation, mothers have suffered miscarriages. Neighbors are battling rare cancers. Local officials have raised concerns […]
By Kevin Harris and Richard McDaniel Guest Column There is a dangerous misinformation campaign about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The false narrative that HBCUs are somehow fragile, dependent on foreign students, or lesser-tier […]
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column If you had either the morbid curiosity or the sheer courage to watch Dear Leader explode before your very eyes this past week during his 20 minute television meltdown, […]
By Kevin Harris and Richard McDaniel Guest Column Now that the government shutdown has temporarily ended, Democrats can take stock of the 2025 election returns and assess what the results mean for the 2026 midterms. […]
By Rev. Donald L. Perryman, Ph.D. The Truth Contributor You can’t be neutral on a moving train. – Howard Zinn NEWSFLASH! The 2026 midterms are not about suburban moderates. They hinge on whether young people […]
By Carla Thomas The Truth Contributor There was a time when it was illegal for Black people to read. When we couldn’t own anything because we were owned. When we couldn’t eat in the same […]
Special to The Truth National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s comments about Somali Americans: “The President’s abhorrent slurs against Soma-li Americans are not […]
By Ben Jealous News of the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s health struggles has stirred many. It has me praying. And it has me remembering the hard lessons he taught, shaped in the trenches of our people’s […]
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq Guest Column For the historically challenged readers who are not versed with the concept of Jim Crow, suffice it to know that this intentionally-created dim-witted buffoon was the product of a […]