During the crack epidemic of the ’80s and ’90s, children exposed to crack cocaine be- fore birth were often referred to as “crack babies.”

In case you somehow haven’t noticed, manhood is on the ballot. Even before President Biden stepped aside to let Vice Presi- dent Kamala Harris step up to be the Democrats’ presiden- tial nominee, insiders from both parties were calling this …

The race for mayor will be filled with critical discussions on many topics: our public schools, neighborhood safety, economic opportunity, the functioning of City Hall and transportation, to name a few. But those issues will be accompanied by some new …

It has been 40 years since I last read Dr. Seuss’ “The Foot Book” aloud, but I can still recite it, nearly word for word. That’s because I read it an estimated 83,492 times during my daughter’s earliest years.

Last week in Chicago, the National Urban League joined with the Brennan Center and Democracy SENTRY for a conversation on voting rights.

The Democratic National Convention, held Aug. 19 through 22, was, among other things, an occasion of joy.

Perhaps the most memorable moment of this year’s Democratic National Convention came the night before Kamala Harris officially accepted the party’s nomination for president.

People can be pleasantly unpredictable at times, so our politics is equally unpredictable.

“We are not going back,” goes the Democrats’ passionate rebuttal to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign — which is about going back to the “golden days” of America, when white men held all the power and Black folks …

Dear Dr. Richardson and Ladies and Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees, Virginia Union University,

“This proposed structure will be as tall as the Statue of Liberty. It is a major threat to the slave-descendant community of Wallace. This grain elevator would take up hundreds of acres of the fields around you that once formed …

As one who sympathized and empathized with President Biden, I was relieved when he decided to step aside for a younger generation of presidential contenders.

Supply and demand: We often hear that this is the fundamental issue when it comes to affordable housing. If only we built more homes, meeting demand, then prices would fall. But like many simple stories, it’s more fiction than truth.

I often think about a factory hallway in Dalton, Ga. that is filled with pictures drawn by children. It is a reminder of what can be, what will be, thanks to the historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which celebrates its …

While the saying may be true that candidates for vice president usually don’t make much of a difference in the ultimate success of presidential candidates, they do give us plenty to argue about.