The hashtag, #SayHerName, isn’t simply a one-off catchphrase. It is a social justice visibility movement that Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor at UCLA Law School and Columbia University Law School, created to highlight law enforcement violence against Black women and girls within an anti-Black society. It shone a spotlight on the killing of

As winter drags on, families across North Carolina are feeling the cold. For many of the low-income households the North Carolina Justice Center serves, this season doesn’t just mean turning up the heat; it means agonizing choices between paying the power bill or putting food on the table, filling prescriptions or covering rent. Duke Energy’s

America watched it happen in real time. Journalists were arrested for doing their jobs. Not in some distant dictatorship. Not under cover of night in a failed state. In the United States of America. Don Lemon. Georgia Fort. Trahem Jeen Crews. Jamael Lydell Lundy. Their crime was witnessing power and reporting it. While the arrests were immediate and the

For most of my adult life, I thought I was terrible at relationships. Not bad at love. Not bad at commitment. Horrible at communication, even though I write and speak in public for a living. Horrible. So, I thought. Every relationship — romantic, professional, intimate, long-term, short-term — hit the same wall. Different faces. Same

Since race can't be used as a factor in college admissions, the number of white men enrolled in college has dropped significantly. Colleges had relaxed admissions standards for white men to help balance a class’s racial and gender diversity, but the move toward meritocracy has hurt white men the most. Maybe Donald Trump wants to make it harder for

Durham’s 2025 municipal election was one of the most contentious in recent memory. Many residents have expressed deep frustration with the city’s current political climate and growing concern about the direction it is heading under its existing leadership. In response, a coalition of former political candidates, community organizers, and

Karida Giddings It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Well, almost. Autumn leaves will fall first, rolling out a brownish-orange carpet for Thanksgiving and, before that, Halloween. Just how happy those holidays will be is the thing. The National Retail Federation should have some insight during a Nov. 6 media call announcing its retail sales

One could make the case that Democrats lost the 2024 election in part because they abandoned the Black Press – the voice of Black America. Black voters, the backbone of the party, walked away in numbers unseen in modern times. At the very moment when all Americans — Black, white, Latino and others — are called to stand against