By Ben Jealous When Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president in 2021, she swore her oath of office on two Bibles. One belonged to our nation’s first Black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. […]
By Ben Jealous The modern civil rights movement hit a new peak last week in Illinois. It marked the movement coming full circle, in a way, back to the state of its birth more than […]
By Ben Jealous Most people think of “tree hugger” as a casual insult for a certain kind of environmentalist. The term actually has a proud history. It is time to take it back. In 1730, […]
By Ben Jealous When General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford – the “Big Three” American automakers – were close to extinction 15 years ago, their workers and the American people stepped in to save them. The […]
By Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com) – There’s a phrase you hear from business schools to board rooms that comes from John Doerr, a legendary investor who backed Google, Amazon, and Intuit: Measure what matters. Those words […]
By Ben Jealous The interstates built in the 1950s and 1960s killed the vitality of the communities where people of color and the poor lived, from Overtown in Miami to the Hill District in Pittsburgh […]
By Ben Jealous If a public opinion poll done last month is right, more than half of you won’t know what I mean by the initials “ESG,” and fewer than one in 10 will understand […]
By Ben Jealous People around East Palestine, Ohio, have been warned not to run their vacuum cleaners. That was the reality two weeks after a train derailment in the village of about 4,700 people […]
By AALBC Buy the Kindle eBook Borrow from Library “One of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders” (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of […]
By Ben Jealous Two things happened last week — one public, the other personal — that made me reflect on how far we’ve come as a nation, how we got here, and what it will […]
By Ben Jealous A lot of good news came out of this month’s elections—and enough bad news to remind us that we can never let our guard down when freedom and democracy are at stake. […]
By Ben Jealous Some things are unthinkable—until they happen. For Jamie Raskin, a congressman and father, the first unthinkable thing was the loss of his beloved son Tommy to suicide on New Year’s Eve 2020. […]
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