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COMMENTARY: Hey, Cousin: What I Saw On Juneteenth At Andrew Jackson’s Plantation

By Ben Jealous | Trice Edney Wire On Juneteenth, I traveled to the Hermitage, President Andrew Jackson’s plantation outside Nashville, to celebrate Black music. Neither Juneteenth nor Black music had ever been celebrated there before. Lela Harris flew in from Maryland. She descends from Alfred, born enslaved on that land. When freedom came, he chose the name Jackson for himself. He asked to be buried beside the president, and he was. She stood on that same ground and spoke. Other […]

todayJune 27, 2026 1

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COMMENTARY: 50 Years Later, is ‘Roots’ on the Wrong Side of History?

By Erin Kaplan | Guest Columnist Fifty summers ago, in 1976, journalist and author Alex Haley published his masterwork, “Roots: The Saga of an American Family.” The timing was exquisite: As the nation celebrated the bicentennial with fireworks and paeans to freedom, “Roots” countered it with a deeply personal, Black-centered narrative of American history that began in Africa and cast the horror of slavery as foundational, not incidental, to the country’s founding and its character. Despite its unflinching truths, “Roots” […]

todayJune 26, 2026 2

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COMMENTARY: Black Alliance for Just Immigration Supports Black Voting Rights!

Special to The Post The Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) condemns the continued gutting of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the broader assault on Black political power unfolding across the United States. Black immigrants in the United States — whether citizens or not — share a common condition with Black Americans. Our ability to access housing, healthcare, education, labor protections, safety, and political representation is deeply tied to the political power of Black communities in this country. When […]

todayJune 19, 2026 1

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COMMENTARY: At 250, America Still Has a Choice

By Rev. Peter Johnson | Texas Metro News As America approaches its 250th birthday, I find myself thinking less about fireworks and more about footsteps. I think about the footsteps of Black men and women who walked dusty roads to register voters when doing so could get you fired from your job. I think about the footsteps of children who marched into mobs of hatred armed with nothing but courage and faith. I think about the footsteps of my own […]

todayJune 19, 2026 1

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Gov. Newsom Signs Election Security Bill; Asm. Bryan Praises Move

By Bo Tefu, California Black Media Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on May 29 aimed at strengthening protections for California elections, arguing that the measure is necessary to guard against voter intimidation, election interference and unauthorized access to voting systems. The new law, Senate Bill (SB) 73, authored by state Sens. Sabrina Cervantes (D-Riverside) and Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana), expands existing safeguards for election workers, ballots, voter rolls and election infrastructure. The legislation comes amid ongoing national debates over election […]

todayJune 18, 2026

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Not Just a Southern Issue: Advocates Say SCOTUS Voting Rights Decision Has Already Started to Reshape Black Political Power

By Edward Henderson, California Black Media U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA-37), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) whose district spans parts of Los Angeles County, joined fellow CBC member U.S. Rep. Troy Carter (D-LA-2) for a May 21 briefing with Black media outlets in California.  The lawmakers highlighted what they describe as a mounting threat to Black political representation resulting from an April 29 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that weakened key protections under the federal Voting Rights Act.   […]

todayJune 17, 2026 1

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OP-ED: Juneteenth, America at 250, and the Hole in the Soul of Our Democracy

By Wade Henderson As Americans prepare to celebrate Juneteenth and the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding, we should take pride in the extraordinary progress our country has made toward becoming a more perfect union. But these milestones also demand honesty. They require us to confront the Supreme Court’s recent gutting of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most consequential civil rights laws ever enacted, as well as another glaring contradiction that remains a hole in the soul of […]

todayJune 16, 2026

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COMMENTARY: Our Voices — When Armed Power Appears at the Ballot Box

By Rev. Peter Johnson | Texas Metro News There are sounds you never forget once you have heard them. The slow crunch of gravel beneath a sheriff’s boots outside a voting station. The sound of a shotgun being cocked. The silence of Black citizens standing in line, afraid to make eye contact. The sound of a church mother whispering, “Baby, if I don’t come home tonight, tell your daddy I tried.” I remember grown men trembling before voter registration tables, not […]

todayJune 15, 2026 3

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Donalds Inching Closer to Becoming First-Ever Black Florida Governor

By David L. Snelling | South Florida Times MIAMI – In 2018, then-Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum upset U.S. Rep. Gwendolyn Graham in Democratic Primary in the Florida gubernatorial race. Gillum won despite his opponent’s massive endorsements, a campaign war chest and support from her father, former longtime U.S. Senator and Florida governor Bob Graham. Gillum was poised to make history as the first-ever Black governor in Florida’s history, but he narrowly lost to Republican Ron DeSantis, who was hand-picked by […]

todayJune 11, 2026 3