Washington Informer Opinion: African American Voices, Policy Insight & Cultural Commentary

laughing black father playing with children

MORIAL: As Father’s Day Coincides With Juneteenth, We Celebrate #BLACKDADS

by Marc H. Morial June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 as Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

WILLIAMS: Just a ‘Dust-Up’

by E. Faye Williams June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

**FILE** Washington D.C. Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, located along the Capital Beltway in Kensington, Maryland (Courtesy of Carol M. Highsmith via Wikimedia Commons)

Hamil R. Harris

A Visit to the Mormon Temple

by Hamil R. Harris June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

A roll of police tape (police line) lies on the ground outside a home being foreclosed on in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2009.

MARSHALL: Poverty and the Children of Privilege

by David W. Marshall June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

**FILE** James Page receives a dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at the Bowie Senior Center in Bowie, Maryland, on April 21, 2021. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

RICHARDSON: COVID-19 is Adapting Every Day. We Need to Look Beyond the Syringe to Catch Up.

by Rev. W. Franklyn Richardson June 21, 2022June 21, 2022

Reps. Bennie G. Thompson (center), chair of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, and Liz Cheney (fourth from right), vice chair of the committee, lead a June 9 hearing at the U.S. Capitol to present previously unseen material and testimony documenting the 2021 attack on the Capitol. (Cheriss May/The Washington Informer)

JEALOUS: Watch the Jan. 6 Hearings — Getting the Truth is the First Step in Holding People Accountable

by Ben Jealous June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

close up photo of police siren

MORIAL: NUL’s ’21 Pillars’ Tour Focuses on Racism, Excessive Force Among Kansas City Police Department

by Marc H. Morial June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

A caregiver assists a victim of Alzheimer's. (Courtesy photo)

ANUZIS: Biden’s Rationing of Alzheimer’s Treatments is Just the Beginning

by Saul Anuzis June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

**FILE** In 2020, two blocks on 16th Street between K and H Streets in northwest D.C. was renamed "Black Lives Matter Plaza.” People celebrated Juneteenth on the Plaza protesting the murder of George Floyd. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

WILLIAMS: Awakening

by E. Faye Williams June 15, 2022June 15, 2022

**FILE** Yellow police tape on the East Plaza with the Capitol dome in the background on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

WHITE: My Jobs Guarantee Program Would Reduce Violent Crime and Foster Greater Hope

by Robert C. White Jr. June 15, 2022June 15, 2022