“Trump’s reasons for boycotting the event are ridiculous, to be polite … The claim that white people are more affected by criminal acts in the country is not only a […]
Author Archives: Marc H. Morial
End the shutdown
As the government shutdown drags on, families, workers, and communities across the country are suffering. This crisis—manufactured and entirely avoidable—must end now. It is not a political tactic; it is […]
The State of Black America
A war has been declared in this country. And the fight isn’t just for diversity, equity, and inclusion or for fair economic and criminal justice practices. It’s for the soul […]
The Big Ugly Bill would deny ordinary Americans
“Senate Republicans tried to write Donald Trump’s contempt for the courts into law — gutting judicial enforcement, defying the Constitution, and bulldozing the very rule of law that forms our […]
Fortune 500 milestones reveal the big lie
As a hostile backlash to racial justice and gender equality wipes out desperately-needed corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, the latest Fortune 500 rankings marked two revealing milestones. Though only […]
The cruelty of ending Job Corps
A war has been declared on our young people. Government funding for protections against epidemics has been stripped from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of […]
Defying Trump’s crusade to rewrite American history
“He can try to rewrite history, but we have the receipts. And as the Smithsonian’s exhibits magnificently illustrate, African Americans have survived — and overcome — much worse than the […]
America’s slide into tyranny is no longer hypothetical
Defiance of the Constitution
Trump’s budget is a betrayal of his promise to working-class Americans
Future generations
burdened with debt
Rejecting the Freedom to Discriminate
It was not so long ago when one of the most powerful justifications wielded in support of the American practice of segregation was religious belief.

