A time of great sacrifice, triumph One hundred forty-five years ago on Jan. 1, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, helping to transform this country from a union of states into a nation, from a country stained by slavery into one moving at great […]
  U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in an annual report, called for an aggressive evaluation of how judicial branch handles allegations of sexual harassment. In the report, “The State of the Judiciary,†Justice Roberts said that recent events “have illuminated the depth of […]
U.S. Senator-elect Doug Jones of Alabama this week hired Dana Gresham, an African-American Washington, D.C. insider, as his chief of staff. Jones, who was set to be sworn in Wednesday, Jan. 3, will be the only Democratic U.S. Senator with a black chief of […]
A group of congressional lawmakers met recently on Capitol Hill with a prominent psychiatric expert who briefed them on President Donald Trump’s mental state. Dr. Bandy X. Lee reportedly met two days behind closed doors with the lawmakers and warned that the President is “going […]
“It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jetliner […]
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., born on January 15, 1929, turned 39 years old fifty years ago. Assassinated on April 4, 1968, he didn’t make it to 40. Yet in his scant 39 years on the planet, he upended the ways we think about race, […]