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

**FILE** Andrea Levy (R) from Queens, New York, joins other demonstrators for slave reparations on the National Mall August 17, 2002, in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of blacks rallied, saying it is long past time to compensate blacks for the ills of slavery. (Manny Ceneta/Getty Images)

MALVEAUX: Reparations Rising With Robin Rue Simmons

by Julianne Malveaux December 15, 2021December 16, 2021

**FILE** Metropolitan Police Department vehicles (Courtesy photo)

MUHAMMAD: Black Female Cops Sue D.C. Police Department

by Askia Muhammad December 15, 2021March 7, 2024

two girls doing school works

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Training Excellent Teachers

by Marian Wright Edelman December 15, 2021December 16, 2021

**FILE** 2018 Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams discusses her fight to end voter suppression during a conversation at the Brookings Institution in northwest D.C. on Feb. 15, 2019. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)

JEALOUS: Why Stacey Abrams is Important for Georgia and Our Democracy

by Ben Jealous December 15, 2021December 16, 2021

white concrete building under blue sky

MORIAL: U.S. Democracy at ‘Critical Risk’ Without Filibuster Reform

by Marc H. Morial December 15, 2021December 16, 2021

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MALVEAUX: Consumerism is the Foundation of Predatory Capitalism

by WI Guest Author December 8, 2021

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X waiting for press conference, March 26, 1964. (Photo: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

BAILEY: Black History Gifts Are Very Important for Black Children

by WI Guest Author December 8, 2021

MUHAMMAD: GOP ‘Base’ Really Wants Armageddon, Chaos

by Askia Muhammad December 8, 2021December 14, 2021

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on February 22, 1956, by Lieutenant D.H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott. She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott. This was a few months after her arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated municipal bus in Montgomery, Alabama. (Wikimedia Commons)

MORIAL: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Roused People to Demand Equal Rights

by WI Guest Author December 8, 2021

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JEALOUS: Right-Wing Judges Put Millions’ Rights and Access to Health Care at Risk

by WI Guest Author December 8, 2021