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BC Editorial Board Member Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD (JulianneMalveaux.com) is former dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at Cal State, the Honorary Co- Chair of the Social Action Commission of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and serves on the boards of the Economic Policy Institute as well as The Recreation Wish List Committee of Washington, DC. Her latest book is Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy. A native San Franciscan, she is the President and owner of Economic Education a 501 c-3 non-profit headquartered in Washington, D.C. During her time as the 15th President of Bennett College for Women, Dr. Malveaux was the architect of exciting and innovative transformation at America’s oldest historically black college for women. Contact Dr. Malveaux and BC.
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He was not carved from stone; he was forged in struggle.
America has rituals for the dead. We lower flags. We dim lights. We ask for moments of silence. In rare cases - former presidents, Rosa Parks…
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The history of American democracy teaches us that administrative mechanisms are rarely neutral.
Frederick Douglass did not know the day he was born. Like many enslaved people, he was denied even the dignity of documentation. Birth dates were approximations.…
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A ten-hour reduction in a workweek does not register as unemployment, but it can mean the difference between rent and eviction, medication and delay, food and scarcity.
Labor economists like me mark our calendars for the first Friday of each month, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases The Employment Situation. In February,…
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Black Americans are told this is none of our concern. That is precisely why it should be.
Black America is often told that foreign policy is distant - something for diplomats, generals, and elites in places most of us will never see. We…
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History teaches us that unchecked state power - especially when fueled by rumor, fear, and racialized suspicion - rarely stops with its first target.
The United States insists it cannot afford housing, jobs, or care. Yet it can always afford cages. Immigration enforcement is not a response to crisis; it…
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When that man who lives in the House Enslaved People Built claims that white people are discriminated against by civil rights laws, he is not offering a provocative aside. He is attempting to invert King's moral framework.
We are living in a time of deep and dangerous instability. Wars are threatened or underway, democratic norms are eroding, and economic inequality is no longer…
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This is what voter suppression looks like in the 21st century: clean, quiet, and legally defensible - until you look at who it affects.
The United States Postal Service is under attack again - and this time, the damage threatens both Black livelihoods and Black votes. The Postal Service is…
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In a moment when suffering is normalized and poverty is treated as a personal failure rather than a policy choice, books insist on humanity.
It has been a hard year. A loud year. A year marked by cruelty dressed up as policy and indifference framed as realism. Which is precisely…
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We cannot celebrate the season while ignoring the message embedded in the manger. Housing insecurity is not a moral failure of individuals - it is a policy failure of government and society.
Every December, we celebrate the story of a child born in a manger. We adorn nativity scenes with soft light and warm sentiment, but we rarely…
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