On This Presidents’ Day, Let’s Remember Most of Them Were Terrible

The fact that we have an International Women’s Day means we are still in trouble. There is no International Men’s Day. Only less powerful people or forgotten...

Gloria Steinem

On International Women's Day, let's remember 'as much as women are succeeding, they...

On International Women’s Day and throughout Women’s History Month, it’s worth considering and reflecting on the triumph and tragedy of our current state of...

NBC News (Online)

Black History Month During A Pandemic, Told Through The Eyes Of One Family

Like many of us, Richard Williams has been figuring out how to be creative in a pandemic that limits so much of what we can do. The photographer and graphic...

BuzzFeed News

How Negro History Week Became Black History Month and Why It Matters Now

Black History Month has been celebrated in the United States for close to 100 years. But what is it, exactly, and how did it begin? In the years after...

New York Times (News)

This year, Black History Month has been overtaken by white history made on Jan. 6

Black History Month, essential as it is, is too often a respite from white history, a way for Americans of all colors to embrace the heroics of Harriet Tubman...

Los Angeles Times

From the Center

#ChooseToChallenge is the theme for International Women's Day 2021. Here's what you...

Change comes from challenge — and that is the message organizers of International Women's Day 2021 hope to trumpet Monday. "A challenged world is an alert...

For Valentine’s Day, 5 facts on relationships and dating in the U.S.

Valentine’s Day this year will be unlike any in recent memory as coronavirus-related restrictions continue to limit what Americans can do to celebrate. But...

Pew Research Center

Black History Month 2021: The only way forward is through, together

It’s an understatement to say that 2020 got on Black folks’ collective last nerve. We began the year with a COVID-19 pandemic that hit us harder than any...

Biden, Harris volunteer for MLK Day as Trump signs 3 executive orders

Just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office, the National Security Agency is moving forward with installing Michael Ellis, a Republican operative...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s words of unity and truth transcend how they are often twisted

More than half a century after an assassin's bullet silenced him, and 35 years after the nation began observing a federal holiday in his honor, Martin Luther...

From the Right

Women In Red: The Surprising History Of International Women's Day

In honor of International Women’s Day, allow me to quote the statement made by Vladimir Lenin, who presided over the first official March 8th celebration of...

Evie Magazine

Who Was St. Valentine? Separating The Man From The Myth.

Like St. Patrick’s Day or Mardi Gras, 21st-century society has largely forgotten the religious origins of St. Valentine’s Day. While some may blame that on the...

The Daily Wire

Black History Month 2021 focusing on 'The Family' as a theme

Monday marks the start of Black History Month, a time to reflect on the contributions African Americans have made to the U.S. while recognizing that the fight...

Fox News (Online News)

Alveda King: Uncle Taught That People 'Must Learn to Live Together'

The late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. taught that people "must learn to live together as brothers and sisters or perish together as fools," and his message still...

Newsmax (News)

Continuing the African American tradition of civil society