A new year brings optimism for Guilford County Schools
February 2, 2024The onset of a new year always sparks reflection and a renewed dedication to progression and growth. It serves as a reminder of the great distances covered, and the journey still ahead. The reflection of the significant journey taken by Guilford County Schools (GCS) over this past year is a testament to the dedication of […]
Enact the Urban League’s 21 pillars and the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
January 26, 2024“The only way to get this number down significantly would be to make more significant changes to, you know, what policing means in this country.” — Justin Nix, criminal justice professor, University of Nebraska Omaha The sheriff’s deputies who shot and killed Tony Cox in Michigan last month said he had a gun. He didn’t. […]
Keep Moving
January 19, 2024I heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speak for the first time when he gave the Founders’ Day address in Spelman College’s Sisters Chapel during my senior year of college. His subject that day was “Keep Moving from This Mountain.” Dr. King said he wanted to start by taking us way back to the people […]
Honoring MLK: The unfinished journey towards economic freedom
January 12, 2024This January 15, our nation will observe the only national holiday designated as a day of service. The Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday was first observed in 1986. However, it took another 17 years for all 50 states to recognize the holiday, according to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. […]
Bishop Barber champions plight of the disabled
January 5, 2024GREENVILLE, N.C. – It was the day after Christmas – Tuesday, Dec. 26th – and all Bishop William Barber was doing was spending quality time with his 90-year-old mother. Indeed the whole week had been planned out so that mother and son could spend precious quality time together that they normally could not, because of […]
Union momentum is strong heading into 2024
December 29, 2023When working people stand together, raise their voice and show their power, they win. That’s the lesson of 2023, a year in which workers boldly asserted their rights and refused to accept less than their fair share of the value they create. Through October, nearly 500,000 workers have taken the courageous step of going on […]
The comeback of an iconic beauty brand
December 22, 2023Having the confidence we need as Black women to get out there every day is not easy. Doors are opening, I’m happy about that, but once we get in that door, it’s still not easy. Any little edge I can get, if it’s my Nuditude lipstick, I’m happy to have that edge that makes me […]
Why does most of America ignore violence prevention?
December 15, 2023For 12 years during months of October, Black Women for Positive Change has sponsored annual days, weeks and months of Non-Violence, Families, Voters Rights and Opportunities. It is our belief that with the epidemic of violence gripping the nation, America should be anxious for new approaches that can promote violence prevention, anger management, conflict resolution […]
Federal Appeals Court decision on voting rights act “Intellectually Bankrupt”
December 1, 2023“Why does it matter if the Voting Rights Act is enforceable by private plaintiffs? If the panel’s conclusion is upheld by the Supreme Court, then Section 2 effectively becomes a light switch. A Republican president—say, Donald Trump—could simply instruct the Justice Department to stop bringing Section 2 lawsuits at all. With no private alternative, that […]
An Evangelical appeal to moral case for cease fire
November 23, 2023You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD. — Lev. 19:18. As evangelical Christians in America, we are grieved by the violence that has consumed Israel and Gaza and we are troubled by the ways our faith […]
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