With the publication of issue #200 on October 5, 2006 we created a multi-dimensional BC Editorial Board and took a new, more inclusive and broader direction. Today the board totals 20 members with the addition of the 4 individuals listed below in alphabetical order by last name.

Hany K. Khalil - Organizing Coordinator for United for Peace and Justice, the national antiwar coalition. An Egyptian American, he also works with the bilingual anti-war paper War Times. Hany has organized in the racial justice, labor, and peace movements for the last 15 years. He holds a Masters degree in Urban Planning from UCLA and teaches grassroots organizing at New York University.

Manning Marable, PhD - One of America’s most influential and widely read scholars. Since 1993, Dr. Marable has been Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City. From 1993 to 2003, Dr. Marable was founding director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. Under Dr. Marable’s leadership, the Institute became one of the nation’s most prestigious centers of scholarship on the Black American experience.

Barbara Ransby, PhD - Historian, writer, and longtime political activist. Dr. Ransby is currently an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Departments of African American Studies and History.

Ethel Long-Scott - Executive Director of the Women's Economic Agenda Project, (WEAP). She is known nationally and internationally for devoting her life to the education and leadership of people at the losing end of society, especially women of color. She is dedicated to economic security and justice and believes that the US is engaged in a relentless war against workers and the poor.

All the members of the BC Editorial Board are dedicated activists, thinkers and writers. Board members are an integral part of the development of a new, more inclusive and more broadly directed BlackCommentator.com.  In return, membership on the BC Editorial Board offers these talented individuals an opportunity for their articulate and profound voices to reach an expanded audience.

BC’s new direction focuses more attention on issues affecting African American women, working people and the African World, while continuing overall attention to the struggle for economic and social justice and peace.

Editorial board members submit writings of their own and others, and provide editorial input.  Board members are asked for their opinions about particular issues, topics and articles that should be or are being considered for inclusion in BC.

In short, the content of BC is firmly in the hands of the BC Editorial Board.

So now BC readers have 20 more reasons to become BC Paid Subscribers and BC Contributors.

We thank you very much for your readership and hope you join us in looking enthusiastically to the future.