Remembering America’s Most Patient Patriots
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Vantage Point VignettesComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels
Yesterday was Memorial Day, one of America’s most “patriotic” holidays because it honors...
Continuing Struggle, Keeping Faith and Holding the Line
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
It is good and right to rebel and revolt against unfreedom and morally imperative to resist evil,...
Project 2025 is an Attack on Black People
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By Julianne Malveaux —
Project 2025 is a conservative manifesto if a Republican is elected President in 2024. Crafted by the Heritage...
How clean energy naysayers help China and hurt American workers
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By Ben Jealous —
Electric vehicles (EVs) are the future of transportation. As a driver of an (American-made) electric vehicle myself, I...
When gangs are more dangerous than war
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An international police operation of African and Caribbean officers is set to begin in Haiti to help local police overwhelmed by...
A furious, forgotten slave narrative resurfaces after nearly 170 years
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John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own...
Some Essential Moral and Social Conceptions
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
Continuing to uplift the life and liberating model and mirror Nana Haji Malcolm offers us in this...
I Left My Heart in San Francisco
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By Julianne Malveaux —
I was blessed to visit my hometown from May 17 through May 19, blessed to join a stellar...
Third Parties and the November Election
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By Ted Glick —
So what’s the state of the horse race for the Presidency? I’ve done a little research, and here’s...
Water crises are a growing problem across the Caribbean islands
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Public water shortages have left people scrambling for alternatives on many of the islands, including Cuba.
By Farah Nibbs, The Conversation —
In...
Is this Biden’s Emancipation Proclamation Moment?
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Vantage Point VignettesComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels
It may be difficult for President Biden to win a second term without...
Walking for Reparations and Earn the Black Vote
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May 13, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point
On this edition of Vantage Point, host Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor is joined...
Loving, uplifting and liberating our people
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
Continuing our conversation with Haji Malcolm in this his birth month of May, I want to also...
Black Freedom Struggle, Black Activism, Haiti Crisis, Reparations
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Dr. Ron Daniels on His Lifetime Commitment to the Black Freedom Struggle, Critique of Black Activism, the Crisis in Haiti and...
Poor and low-income people need to vote
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux —
“There were fifteen Presidential debates in 2020,” thunders the Rev. William Barber, the co-chair of the Poor...
Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and our moment of bad reading
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The once-upon-a-time defense of the poetics of rap has been ceded to the millennial mind of Genius.com, taking every syllable as...
Caribbean support for Palestinian state growing
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By Bert Wilkinson, Caribbean Life —
As if they have coordinated their moves, three Caribbean Community nations recently took steps to recognize...
Reimagine Public Safety Pledge Workshop
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Reimagine Public Safety Pledge Workshop: Transforming the Response to Crisis Calls for Service
On May 29th at 3:00pm EST, John Jay College’s Future...
What college protests could look like across the U.S. as summer begins
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College administrators hope that the end of the school year will diminish the protests, but the activists are making plans for...
Not just magic, but hard work repels misogynoir
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By Julianne Malveaux —
Pennsylvania Democrat Summer Lee won her primary election on April 23, repelling an opponent who challenged her partly...
Student demands for divestment are not new
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There is a long history of students organizing for divestment from states and institutions complicit in criminal acts, apartheid, and genocide....
I teach democracy at Princeton. Student protesters are getting an education like no other
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Students across the US are forging bonds in the face of brutal power structures. You might say they’ve already won.
By Razia...
Uplifting Essential Attributes, Principles and Practices
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
As we move into May, the month of Nana Haji Malcolm’s coming into being and the imminent...
Activist Risk Taking, Then and Now — By Ted Glick
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By Ted Glick —
April 30 is a day I remember because it is my mom’s birthday. She died in 2005. But...
