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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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Scrubbing our history books of references to Black, Brown, and other patriots is just a first step towards dismantling any notion of critical thinking.
After he won the Nevada Republican caucuses in 2016, the current President crowed about his victory. “We won with young. We won with old. We won…
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It’s overtime for us to fight outward and build inward. Fight outward – protest, protest, protest. Build inward - strengthen our connections, work more collaboratively, and when folk like Dr. Bunche and Dr. Hayden are threatened, prepare to clap back.
It has not yet been sixty days, but in two scant months the 47th President has upended business as usual, in federal government, in classrooms, in…
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Fruit like strawberries, blueberries and avocados are imported from Mexico. Energy products are imported from Canada.
Because I lack a degree in psychology or pathology, I cannot speculate about the motives of the 47th President who, on March 4, embarked on a…
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Should we fund our own oppression by patronizing a company that has turned on us?
African Americans have about $1.6 trillion in buying power. And we are the ultimate consumers, disproportionately spending on beauty and personal care, apparel and footwear, and…
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Looking out of her window, she asked her mother, “why is our government attacking us?”
I can’t remember when I met Dr. Olivia Hooker, a Tulsa Massacre survivor, the first African American woman to serve in the Coast Guard (she wanted…
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We are in an era where truth doesn’t matter.
The 47th President has attacked our government like a bull in a China closet. He is doing his best to upend precedent and policy, as he…
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In his short one-term presidency he made a difference.
As our beloved 37th President’s body made its way from Plains, Georgia to Atlanta to the US Capitol to lie in state, tens of thousands of…
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“I want to be remembered as a woman who dared to be a catalyst.” Dared. Catalyst. Audacious words for an audacious woman.
November 30 was Shirley Chisholm Day in New York, and it’s about time New York, the nation, and indeed the world, celebrate this Black woman, the…
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There will be allies at the edges.
Vice President Harris ran a beautiful campaign. She worked like a trojan, traveling from city to city, sometimes as many as three or four in a…
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