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George Floyd 5 years later: A moment or a movement?, By Marc H. Morial

“All Americans are entitled to live with the confidence that the law enforcement officers and agencies in their communities will live up to our Nation’s founding ideals and will protect the rights of all persons. Particularly in African-American communities, we …

Trump embraces South Africans — the white ones, by Clarence Page

President Trump’s refugee policy reminds me of what automaker Henry Ford supposedly said about his company’s Model T: “A customer can have a car painted any color he wants as long as it’s black.”

Youngkin’s veto threatens public health progress, by Vivienne Pierce McDaniel

When we discuss health care, we often think of physicians, hospitals and medications. However, my day-to-day work as a nurse and professor of nursing teaching health policy and advocacy to nurse practitioner students makes it clear that our community and …

Museum defies Trump’s crusade to rewrite history, by Marc H. Morial

“He can try to rewrite history, but we have the receipts. And as the Smithsonian’s exhibits magnificently illustrate, African Americans have survived — and overcome — much worse than the frothings of a puffed-up president who fancies himself a king.” …

Pope Leo XIV seems well loved — but for how long? by Clarence Page

Once loyal Chicagoans got over the double shock of hearing that a local native, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has been named the 267th pope, some critically important, locally familiar questions came up:

From Reconstruction to today, equity efforts meet familiar opposition

The United States’ relationship with diversity, equity and inclusion is not anomalous—it is as American as discrimination itself. Since Donald Trump’s first term in office, DEI has become a central political focus of his administration, matching previous efforts in principle …

Is America still a ‘shining city’ on a hill? By R.L. Byrd

On the night of Jan. 11, 1989, near the end of a 21-minute farewell address, President Ronald Reagan asked the television audience, “How stands ‘The City’ on this winter night?” The City—a reimagined America based off highly controversial pioneer John …

Will Trump have Chicago to kick around anymore? by Clarence Page

Will Donald Trump have Chicago to kick around anymore? That question, an update of Richard Nixon’s memorable farewell to news reporters as he dropped out of the California governor’s race in 1962, came to mind on the heels of some …

Pope Francis: Instrument of peace, antithesis of MAGA, by J. Basil Dannebohm

As a record number of pilgrims representing all walks of life filled the streets of Rome to mourn the death of “The People’s Pope,” history will indicate the fiercest critics of the Francis Pontificate were American Catholics. This should come …

Durbin’s departure stirs a scramble, by Clarence Page

As President Trump’s polling takes a tumble 100 days into his second term — and Dick Durbin, the Senate’s second-ranking Democrat, announces his retirement, a very old hit tune by Ethel Waters comes to mind: “There’ll be some changes made.”

Pope Francis: an advocate for Black America, by Julianne Malveaux

His Holiness Pope Francis made his transition on the morning of after Easter Sunday, after he delivered an Easter blessing from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, and after he toured St. Peter’s Square in his popemobile. His doctors had …

Still Black and still proud, by David W. Marshall

As an international music icon, James Brown emerged as one of the founding fathers of funk with a musical style that often profoundly influenced R&B, jazz, and rock.

Immigration crackdown enters Twilight Zone, by Clarence Page

Kafkaesque. One hears that word a lot in discussions of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Or, for lowbrows like me, “The Twilight Zone” might be the pertinent reference.

Educators find creative work-arounds to laws that restrict what they can teach, by Riley Drake

An onslaught of executive orders from President Donald Trump aim to restrict how and what educators can teach America’s children.

Eliminating women in power, by David W. Marshall

In 2024, four women held the rank of four-star general or admiral. One year later, in 2025, there are none. This is just one example of how individuals and groups who believe in social equity and fairness are embroiled in …

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