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LEON: Your Vote Matters, But Voting Is Not Enough

by Wilmer J. Leon III August 20, 2025August 20, 2025

A Target store on Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington is shown here on Feb. 28, the date when activists called for a nationwide boycott of the department store chain in response to the company's decision to cut diversity, equity and inclusion programs. (Richard D. Elliott/The Washington Informer)

MORIAL: Black, Latino Buying Power Forces DEI Reckoning

by Marc H. Morial July 30, 2025July 30, 2025

Black Experience

NAACP Reignites The Fire Under The Future Leaders of Tomorrow In Charlotte

by Maven McGann July 24, 2025July 24, 2025

**FILE** The Supreme Court's decision to let President Donald Trump move forward with plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education is drawing concern in Washington, D.C., where the majority of the public school population is Black. (WI photo)

Supreme Court Decision Leaves D.C.’s Black Students Vulnerable, Advocates Warn

by Stacy M. Brown July 15, 2025July 15, 2025

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and more than 80 prominent national organizations are demanding immediate and robust oversight of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, under the direction of Harmeet Dhillon (pictured). (Courtesy photo)

Civil Rights Groups Demand Congressional Oversight as Trump’s DOJ Abandons Civil Rights Mandate

by Stacy M. Brown June 19, 2025June 19, 2025

**FILE** For the first time in its 116-year history, the NAACP will not invite a sitting president to its national convention. NAACP President Derrick Johnson (pictured) says this decision has nothing to do with a political party, but rather President Donald Trump’s work to eliminate civil rights. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

NAACP Shuts Out Trump: First Time in 116 Years, Civil Rights Group Refuses to Invite Sitting President

by Stacy M. Brown June 17, 2025June 17, 2025

**FILE** A poster hanging downtown in June 2020 as people took to the streets to protest the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020. (Micha Green/The Washington Informer)

MARSHALL: George Floyd’s Death Should Not Be in Vain

by David W. Marshall June 4, 2025June 4, 2025

**FILE** United States Department of Education (ajay_suresh, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

MORIAL: Defend the Department Of Education — Our Children’s Future Depends On It

by Marc H. Morial April 9, 2025April 9, 2025

man with the american flag

The Past Is the Future: Why Black Policy Infrastructure Is the Key to Lasting Change

by LeRoi A. Barrett and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad April 8, 2025April 8, 2025

**FILE** The sign on C Street SW for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. (G. Edward Johnson, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

MALVEAUX: Trump Loves the Poorly Educated

by Julianne Malveaux April 2, 2025April 2, 2025