A tender story of their last conversation By Barbara Coombs Lee Oprah Winfrey’s mother, Vernita Lee, died last Thanksgiving Day, and...

Undercutting discrimination protections By Marian Wright Edelman The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice in 2014 jointly released a...

Pulling back the curtain on unjust laws By Oscar H. Blayton It's time we stop lying to ourselves. The lying has gone on much too long and...

We make progress by never giving up By Marian Wright Edelman When 26-year-old Stockton, Calif. councilmember Michael Tubbs was elected in...

Black America’s vanishing wealth is bad for all By Bob Lord Want an impossible task? Try identifying the most disturbing trend in America...

By Dr. Karin Edwards There’s something about the turning of the new year that gives people a mind to make changes. The new year presents...

The debts we owe Haitians By Oscar H. Blayton More than 500 Haitian soldiers fought alongside French troops on Oct. 9, 1779 to aid the...

A few white men think everything is about them By Jo Ann Hardesty Jo Ann Hardesty As I start my third week on the Portland City Council,...

A barrier to seeing immigrants as people By Matthew Johnson My favorite album of all time is Pink Floyd’s The Wall. It should be...