Democrats are right to celebrate historic midterm election victories. Alongside flipping both chambers of Congress, Democrats also broke barriers in electing women, African Americans and Latinos at the state and federal level.

Like Amy Acton, candidate for Governor in Ohio and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in Michigan, the Positive Calvary really is coming soon! Aren’t we all tired of the negative past two years …

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." — Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2 Many know this line as a metaphor for the weight of leadership in the face of adversity. Despite the …

“Investigating a bank for following the government’s own rules to create paths to address longstanding discrimination in lending is an abuse of the agency’s investigative authority and a …

This month we mark Columbus Day. The first one was a Chicago story. In the Windy City, Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells spotlighted what Washington wanted forgotten. In the fall of 1892, the nation celebrated four hundred years since Columbus reached the Americas. Chicago was its grandest stage. The city dedicated the grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition.

“The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.” - Ida B. Wells If you placed me in a time machine and took me back to grade school …

In  1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—the prophetic preacher - warned that unless humans are guided by God’s spirit, his newfound scientific power will be transformed into a devastating …

The Urban League movement sees the pain Americans face every day, and we’re meeting the moment the best way we can through job programs and housing and education supports, but now is also a time for Congress to act.

Workers fought for the eight-hour day, and they will have to fight again for predictable hours, decent pay, and the right to be left alone.

There are some things we never give a second thought because our nation has timeless traditions that are easily taken for granted. The 61st U.S. presidential inauguration will occur on Saturday, …

Working-class men of every color have been in crisis for generations. The way out is to come together, for the sake of all our kids. 

“The plain and simple fact is that until we went into the streets, the federal government was indifferent to our demands. It was not until the streets and jails of Birmingham were filled that …

I am blessed to have lived and worked in Michigan for several years, and I have rarely been prouder of what I saw from voters and candidates in this year’s Democratic primary for the United States …

The Trump administration is not eliminating workplace discrimination. It is eliminating the receipts.

Some states made data centers pay their own way. Others handed the bill to you. Virginia settled this question in 1882.

As an economist, I have spent much of my life thinking about what money does. It measures value. It facilitates exchange. It stores wealth. But money also tells a story. Every portrait placed on a …

“The 1976 celebration was a more vital and happy one because of a broad belief that two years earlier the system had worked, and we were celebrating a system that had cleansed itself. We were in a …

As of July first, the income-driven student loan repayment plan that lowered monthly payments for more than 7 million borrows while accelerating loan forgiveness is gone.

The President’s allies on the Supreme Court have had to jump through some hoops to justify their decisions supporting his reckless and discriminatory policies. But Justice Samuel Alito’s claim not to see racism in the effort to end Temporary Protective Status for Haitians defies belief. 

Peacemaker editor and publisher Afrique Kilimanjaro was the keynote speaker during a Juneteenth Shabbat service at Temple Emanuel Greensboro. Below is that presentation. To hear her speech, visit …

Wake up, everybody, No more sleepin’ in bed No more backward thinkin’. Time for thinkin’ ahead The world has changed so very much from what it used to be. There is so much …

For more than 50 years, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) has been an effective federal safeguard to ensure that Black, Latino, Native Americans and other economically marginalized people have …

America once worried about an imperial presidency. Now we have an imperial presidency merged with a family business.

As much of the nation continues to grapple with rising costs that are outpacing wage gains, new research affirms that younger, more diverse generations are caught in a financial marketplace built for yesteryear not today.  

With the aviation industry facing pilot shortages and rising demand, pilots from Tuskegee are well-prepared to seize these and other career opportunities and achieve their professional goals across different aviation sectors.