Editorial

Black buying power in America is expected to surge to $1.98 trillion in 2025, according to the Selig Center for Economic Growth. Strategically leveraged, that economic clout can wield enormous power over companies that are bending the knee to Trump’s mischaracterization of DEI.

So much is wrongheaded about the misguided effort of Elon Musk and his crew to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. It’s hard to know where to start.

Historically, Black Americans have largely been shut out of America’s healthcare system, first as patients, then as professionals. This was due in large part to a variety of long-standing institutional and systematic bigotry that has taken place over many years.

It didn’t take long for newly installed President Trump to launch his promised war on undocumented immigrants.

Better late than never. The old saying, a favorite of parents, certainly applies to Joe Biden’s pardon of Marcus Garvey on the 46th president’s last full day in office.

Donald John Trump didn’t need a Bible to sanctify his inauguration as the nation’s 47th president. God, as Trump told the audience gathered beneath the Capitol rotunda for his swearing-in, had already done that by saving his life from a would-be assassin’s bullet “to make America great again.”

On Martin Luther King Day, we celebrate his life and his message, but the true monument to King should not just be the outdoor memorial in D.C. … it must be the completion of the struggle he lived and died for.

You could say Joe Biden’s relationship with Black America started out somewhat awkwardly

Jimmy Carter’s death this week was a stark reminder of how far our country has strayed from the mission of healing America’s racial divide and devoting our time and resources to uplifting the poor, the hungry, the homeless and the helpless in the richest nation on earth.

As our year comes to an end it is clear that the biggest event of 2024 was the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris and the election for a second time of Donald Trump as president.

As we look toward the end of the year, it is customary to also reflect on those we lost and their impact on our community. This year, that reflection was even more special for me because my aunt Jean McGuire was one of the Museum of African American History’s (MAAH) latest Living Legend honorees.

The second coming of the Trump presidency in 2025 has generated significant controversy and speculation over the potential makeup of his cabinet.