By Jasmine Zapata, MD Hello! Welcome to this week’s edition of Brown Girl Green Money. We are a social network of women of color working to achieve financial freedom and inspire each other along the way. Thanks for joining us again this week. A few months ago, I wrote about the importance of discovering your […]
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Banks Caught Redlining Black Communities
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist The old adage, ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same’ seems somehow an apt description for what a growing number of communities are suffering: a lack of fair lending. In recent weeks and in varying locales, the issue of redlining has led to lawsuits that have been […]
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A Memorial for Skylar Lee
On Youth Activism, Intersectionality, and the Desire for a Better World by Amanda Zhang Last year, a boy I never heard of, with a streak of consistently multicolored hair, messaged me on Facebook. That day I had created an event page for Madison West’s Walkout last year for Tony Robinson. He told me he was […]
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Why Black People Answer When Farrakhan Calls
by George E. Curry It’s time to give Minister Louis Farrakhan credit. When he issues a call for people to join him in the nation’s capital, Blacks show up. At least a million showed up for the Million Man March 20 years ago and at least two-thirds as many showed up for Saturday’s Justice or […]
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The Case For Kevin
By Angela Fitzgerald I have a tendency to become one-track minded, which essentially means that when I am fixated on something, it’s hard for me to let that something go. This trait has proven to be both helpful and harmful, where I am more likely to follow through on goals, but may be more resistant […]
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A Salute to Rev. Jesse Jackson on his 75th Birthday
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Seventy-five years ago a freedom fighter was born in Greenville, South Carolina. His name is Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. and I need to say something about this brother that I have known and worked with for decades in the ongoing Civil Rights Movement in the U. S. and […]
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The Other Inconvenient Truth
What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain by State Representative Leon D. Young It has been nine years since the Al Gore global warming movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ presented a dire view of the consequences of global warming in […]
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Revolutionary Lessons from Burkina Faso
by Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The September 17 coup against the interim president of Burkina Faso, Michel Kafando, contains important lessons regarding the struggle for justice and democracy. Under pressure from demonstrators, striking labor unions and the West Africa regional bloc, the coup leader, Gen. Gilbert Diendere, stepped aside and Kafando and Prime Minister […]
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Systems That Divide Us
Reflections on the Loss of Skylar Lee, the Need for Solidarity and the Complexity of Oppressions by Karma R. Chávez Last February I attended the Creating Change conference in Denver. Creating Change is put on by the National LGBTQ Taskforce and it is one of the largest meetings of LGBTQ non-profit service providers, activists, and […]
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What’s Next for Walker and Wisconsin?
Legislatively Speaking by Senator Lena C. Taylor Governor Scott Walker’s presidential campaign went supernova. At first, he exploded onto the national political scene, but it didn’t last long. His early exit from the race leaves Wisconsinites wondering, “Now what?” To see where Walker will take us, we should first look at where we’ve been. Just […]
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