Politics

“Far more crucial than what we know or do not know Is what we do not want to know.” — Moral and social philosopher Eric [...]

The Virginia Interscholastic Association (VIA) Hall of Fame was created in 2014 to recognize Virginia’s Black teachers, coaches, administrators, and student-athletes who excelled during the [...]

“Smart and sassy.” That is how former New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell described Brooklyn native Shirley Chisholm when she strolled into the nation’s political [...]

     In honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., several of Dr. King’s sentiments in his “letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) addressed to ‘My [...]

Evil Triumphs When Good Men Do Nothing                                           --- Thomas Jefferson                              [...]

Dear Senators Manchin and Sinema, Republican state legislators in 48 states have passed or proposed 389 restrictive voting laws (Brennan Center of Justice, May 2021) [...]

Sociologist/historian W.E. B. Dubois noted in his book, The Souls of Black Folk, published in 1903 that the ‘problem of the 20th century is the [...]

“We don’t need someone who can think. we need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.” - Grover Norquist, Republican strategist,   In 2012 [...]