By Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner – Today is Women’s Equality Day. At the center of my mind is: What the heck do I tell my daughter? How do I tell my daughter about the fact that despite many gains made for women’s (and mothers’) equality, women still don’t earn equal pay for equal work? Women now make, […]
Commentary
Alpha Phi Alpha Brother Brings Dream of King Memorial to Life
Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal #34) – On August 28th, the forty-eighth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will become the first on the National Mall in Washington, DC to honor a person of color, a non-president […]
Unfinished Business: Let’s Get Busy!
By Melanie L. Campbell – The passage of the 19th amendment in 1920 was a seminal moment in the women’s rights movement. A diverse coalition of women, including Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, and others, won the right to vote for women. But, when African American women showed up to […]
The Miseducation of an American Treasure – By Carl D. West
After having some extended conversations and looking at the REAL life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr over the last few weeks, and not the commercial version of this incredibly gifted, thoughtful, compassionate, concerned and giving soul of a man, I’ve come to some serious conclusions about America and my people (Black people). America or […]
A Dream Both Realized and Deferred – by Julianne Malveaux
If one were to look up “tenacity” in a dictionary, one might well simply search for logo of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, or a photograph of the MLK Memorial Foundation’s Executive Director Harry Johnson, Sr.. In 1984, the men of Alpha Phi Alpha proposed a national memorial to Dr. King, and they continued to push […]
Take Me to the Waters Unleash the CBC
By Rev. Marcia L. Dyson – I must confess I’ve had enough: It is high time for black folk to stop beating down on those of our race who dare lift their voices to offer constructive challenges to the White House. I don’t mean personal or mean-spirited attacks; there’s no place for that in our […]
As we prepare for the unveiling of MLK Monument it’s time to answer Dr. King’s final interrogatory: Where Do We Go From Here?
By Felicia Davis – The first national monument to a descendent of former slaves, human rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will stand between two iconic memorials, founding father and slave owner Thomas Jefferson and slave emancipator Abraham Lincoln. As we prepare for the August 28th unveiling it is time that we answer Dr. […]
The beginning of the end
By Julianne Malveaux – When S&P downgraded the U.S. bond rating from AAA to AA+, they formalized the financial buzz of months, if not years. The U.S. is going to hell in a hand basket, replicating the denouement of England in the mid-21st century. Our tax structure, which rewards the rich and punishes the middle […]
Pass the Urban Jobs Act Now
By Marc H. Morial (To Be Equal #33) – Despite all the attention paid in recent months to spending cuts, there are some Members of Congress who agree with the National Urban League that the nation’s number one priority must be job creation and putting America back to work. Months ago, New York Senator Kirsten […]