Author: afipny_4yzieu

Melat Kiros, the Democratic Socialists of America-backed nominee for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, recently told a Tigrayan diaspora audience: “The responsibility that we have as Americans… is only going to be challenged if we are getting represented by people who understand that on a fundamental level. And that means getting more immigrants into office. That means getting more people who have heritage in the global south into office because that’s where those decisions are made specifically.” She was not talking about housing, jobs, schools, or safety in Denver’s Black neighborhoods. She was talking about reshaping America’s role in the “global…

In 1963, Malcolm X gave Black America a warning that still cuts today. He said the white conservative was like a wolf — snarling, obvious, easy to see coming. But the white liberal, he said, was a fox: showing the same teeth, but smiling while he did it. The danger wasn’t the wolf’s open hostility. It was the fox’s hidden hostility, dressed up as friendship, that led people to believe help had finally arrived. Sixty years later, Black voters across this country are asking the right question: after generations of Democratic majorities in city halls, state houses, and Congress, where…

The City’s toughest housing rhetoric has been aimed at private landlords. But if equal accountability is the standard, New York’s own public housing should lead the way. Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made holding private landlords accountable one of the defining themes of his administration. Press conferences. New inspection initiatives. Public hearings. Tough rhetoric. The message is clear: negligent landlords will be held accountable. No reasonable person should oppose safe housing. Every New Yorker deserves to live in an apartment free of mold, leaks, broken heat, pests, and unsafe conditions. Private landlords who violate the law should absolutely be held accountable.…

One of the most important questions in public policy is not whether a proposal sounds compassionate, inclusive, or progressive. The more important question is whether it strengthens or weakens the institutions upon which society depends. Throughout history, nations have risen and fallen not simply because of economic policy or military power, but because of the strength or weakness of their cultural institutions. Among those institutions, none is more important than the family. The family is the first school, the first government, the first economic unit, and the first place where values are transmitted from one generation to the next. Long…

There is a boulevard in Harlem named for a man who once told the House of Representatives he would rather be censured than silent. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard cuts through the neighborhood his namesake represented in Congress for 26 years, and it is worth asking what, exactly, the street sign still commemorates: a politician, or a model of Black political power that Harlem no longer has. Powell became the first Black New Yorker elected to Congress in 1944, running from the Abyssinian Baptist Church — the largest Black congregation in the country at the time — into a newly…

The debate over Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s economic views has become so loud that many Americans have forgotten the foundation upon which he built his life. Before anyone attempts to define Dr. King as a socialist, a capitalist, a conservative, or a liberal, they must first answer a more important question: What was the source of his worldview? The historical record leaves little doubt. Dr. King was, first and foremost, a Baptist minister. His calling was not politics—it was the Gospel. Long before he became America’s most recognizable civil rights leader, he was preaching the death, burial, and resurrection of…