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**FILE** Donald Trump (Courtesy of the White House)

WILLIAMS: There’s Something About Being ‘Other’!

by E. Faye Williams June 18, 2025June 18, 2025

Donald Trump’s administration has chosen nominees for high-level positions who have shown non-law-abiding behavior, but if they follow the principles of love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control, they may do a great job.

From left: Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest winners Leah Bailey, Serenity Jefferson and Austin Strauss (Courtesy of Maurice Fitzgerald)

Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest Winners!

by WI Web Staff January 22, 2025January 22, 2025

Kamala Harris (Courtesy of BlackPressUSA)

Hamil R. Harris, Lifestyle

Social Media Pounds Non-White Female Candidates, Researchers Find

by Hamil R. Harris October 7, 2020December 21, 2021

REYNOLDS: Black Male Sexism Confronting Sen. Kamala Harris Vice Presidency

by WI Guest Author August 27, 2020December 21, 2021

Julianne Malveaux, Op-Ed, Opinion

MALVEAUX: Kamala Harris Still a Winner

by WI Guest Author December 11, 2019December 21, 2021

The 2018 Empowering women in Media, a networking and panel event that presented women of color in media sharing their stories with other women who are looking to break into the world of media. (En la Escena/Kizzy Cox)

Black Experience

Newsrooms Still Lack Women and Individuals of Color

by WI Guest Author March 4, 2019October 31, 2020

Demonstrators gather near R&B singer R. Kelly’s former recording studio in Chicago on Jan. 9, 2019, following the release of a Lifetime docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly” which highlighted years of sexual abuse against young women. Demonstrators called for a boycott of Kelly’s music and prosecution for sexual assault. (Photo by Max Herman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Columnists, D Kevin McNeir, Editor's Column, Opinion

EDITOR’S COLUMN: Why Are Women Still Marching for, Battling With, and Running From?

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor January 16, 2019October 31, 2020

A large group of women take to the steps of the U.S Supreme Court in protest shortly after Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation was announced on Oct. 6. (Michael A. McCoy)

Editorial, National, Stacy M. Brown

Women of Color Feel Sting of Kavanaugh Confirmation

by Stacy M. Brown October 10, 2018October 31, 2020

Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in prior to giving testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

EDITORIAL: GOP’s Second-Class Citizen Mentality — ‘He Said’ Trumps ‘She Said’

by WI Guest Author October 3, 2018October 31, 2020

Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill Sept. 4, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh was nominated by President Donald Trump to fill the vacancy on the court left by retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Columnists, D Kevin McNeir, Editor's Column, Opinion

EDITOR’S COLUMN: ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ — An Attitude Befitting Cavemen of the Past, Not Today’s Society

by D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor September 26, 2018October 31, 2020