Faith Ringgold
April 26, 2024Anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can’t get to any other way. The next thing you know, you’re flying among the stars.” – Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach When Faith Ringgold passed away on April 12, she left behind an extraordinary legacy as an artist and activist. She was a […]
An update in a long fight for justice
April 19, 2024On April 2, 109-year-olds Viola Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle appeared together at a Tulsa courthouse in a hearing before Oklahoma’s Supreme Court. Mother Fletcher and Mother Randle, as they are known in their communities, are the last two known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. In 2020, they were part of a group […]
Black Americans continue to face hurdles to homeownership
April 12, 2024The approaching spring season signals not only a change in weather; but an annual surge in home buying. Underscoring this long-standing trend is the annual April observance of Fair Housing Month. Enacted in 1968, the Fair Housing Act banned discrimination on the basis of race, religion, and national origin in the sale or rental of […]
Supreme Court abortion case reminiscent of the ‘Lost Cause still blowing in the political winds’
April 5, 2024“This is less about policy and more about pure and simple voting harvesting. Obviously, there is very little support for neonatal care or curbing the death penalty, so ‘pro-life’ is a ridiculous misnomer. They are less pro-life than they are pro-political power — their own … This is the remnants of the Lost Cause still […]
Dorie Ladner’s example
March 29, 2024“I have always had fire, and always been ready to engage in something. And it’s something that burns, you turn on a flame that burns for people who are being mistreated. I don’t care who they are. I don’t want any downtrodden person or persons to be mistreated around the globe.” – Dorie Ladner When […]
Ella Baker
March 22, 2024Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a White mother’s son—we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens. – Ella Baker As Women’s History Month continues, I wanted to highlight again another transforming woman whose name I hope […]
Reporting on the road ahead
March 15, 2024The National Urban League has just released the 2024 edition of its signature publication The State of Black America, and this year the report centers on examining the 60th anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. As the National Urban League says: “For Black America, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the […]
Black History, Women’s History: Septima Clark Child Watch
March 8, 2024As Black History Month ends and Women’s History Month begins, it’s always a special privilege to honor leaders who overlap in both—Black women who did their part to change American history. As we approach the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Summer, one of these leaders to know and honor is Mrs. Septima […]
Time to flip the script on the American imaginary
March 1, 2024People of a certain age may remember a 1960s movie that contained a subplot in which a manipulative teenage girl lures a boy into taking her to a dance, only so she can secretly pursue the boy who is the true object of her affection. This manipulative deception also seems to be a subplot of […]
The Enrichment Fund is committed to public education
February 23, 2024As a farm kid from Florida, I’ve seen firsthand what public education can do. My aunts and uncles found careers as teachers, and my mother found a life. She graduated from college, started as a third-grade teacher at the largest Black school in Hillsborough County near Tampa and retired as an elementary school principal 40 […]
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