President Trump has long fashioned himself a dealmaker, not a warmonger. Yet the June 2025 U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities marked a stark departure from his self-proclaimed aversion to entanglements in the Middle East. With Israeli warplanes having already led the charge and Iran threatening retaliation across the region, Trump found himself cornered—by geopolitical momentum, hawkish advisors, and the optics of hesitation. Whether the strikes were a calculated act of deterrence or a reactive concession to pressure, they underscore the central paradox of his foreign policy: a president who prefers diplomacy but often governs by force. Continue reading
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The Power Equation: What African American Women in U.S. Politics Can Learn from Africa’s Women Presidents
In a world where power is still largely imagined through a masculine lens, Presidents Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania and Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of Namibia are quietly redrawing the blueprint. Their ascendancy—one through constitutional succession, the other through political tenacity—offers more than symbolic victories. For African American women navigating the entrenched hierarchies of American politics, these African heads of state provide not only inspiration, but a strategic template: govern with identity, not in spite of it; wield soft power deliberately; and treat resilience not as a slogan, but as a structure.
Their examples underscore a critical shift: leadership does not demand abandonment of culture, gender, or history. Instead, it requires the mastery of systems while refusing to be mastered by them. In their rise lies a profound lesson—power, when claimed with clarity and conviction, can reconfigure the political imagination across continents. Continue reading
Donald Trump May Have Been Denied in This Battle, But His War to Become America’s Dictator Rages On
In the span of just 24 hours, America witnessed both a judicial check on presidential overreach and a chilling act of political violence. As a federal court blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to impose sweeping new voter restrictions, two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota were gunned down in their homes by a suspect impersonating law enforcement. The events, while seemingly unrelated, form part of a broader pattern—one in which Trump, now in his second term, continues a relentless campaign to concentrate power, dismantle oversight, and intimidate opposition. This is no longer a warning about authoritarian drift. It is the architecture of it, rising in plain sight. Continue reading
The First HBCU President of the United States: Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams didn’t just graduate from an HBCU—she became an HBCU in motion. From Spelman College’s storied grounds to the halls of Georgia’s state capitol, Abrams has long embodied the intersection of scholarship, strategy, and unapologetic Black womanhood. Her potential 2028 presidential run isn’t about breaking barriers—it’s about obliterating the ones that were never meant to contain leaders like her in the first place. In a country still learning to recognize Black leadership that doesn’t come with a Eurocentric frame, Abrams offers a policy-driven, justice-centered vision shaped by the very institutions designed to empower Black excellence. If the campaign trail leads to the White House, she’ll carry more than her ambition—she’ll carry the legacy of Spelman, the wisdom of the South, and the hopes of generations. Continue reading
Bridging the Educational Divide: How HBCU Education Departments Can Support the 19 Million Sudanese Children Out of School
“We cannot remain institutions born of resistance and liberation, yet turn away when 19 million African children face an educational extinction. The same spirit that built classrooms in basements during Jim Crow must now help build virtual classrooms across refugee camps in East Africa. HBCUs were not created simply to uplift African America—they were built to uplift the African world. This is our legacy and our mandate.”
In a time of unimaginable loss, HBCUs can be a bridge—between continents, between cultures, and between children and their future. Continue reading
HBCU Politics™ Profile – From Central State to Meharry Medical College, How America’s Black Colleges Shaped Malawi’s First President
Before he was the Father of Malawi, Hastings Kamuzu Banda was a young African scholar crossing the red clay paths of Central State University in Ohio and later walking the white-pillared corridors of Meharry Medical College in Tennessee. It was in those Black institutions—far from colonial Nyasaland—that he found the intellectual courage and cultural clarity to imagine an independent African state governed by its own people. Banda didn’t just earn degrees at HBCUs; he absorbed a vision. A vision where Black institutions were sovereign, where education was a weapon, and where leadership was forged in community, not conquest. His presidency in Malawi would later reflect both the power and pitfalls of that vision. Continue reading
Multiculturalism And Diversity Are Still Viewed From An Eurocentric Majority
In the age of DEI dashboards and performative allyship, too few are asking the most important question: Who still owns the room? The uncomfortable truth is that diversity has been curated—not constructed—for African Americans, offering symbolic inclusion while preserving Euro-American institutional dominance. When MAGA-era politics rolled back DEI initiatives with surgical precision, what was revealed was not just political hostility, but structural fragility. DEI collapsed not because it was too radical, but because it was never rooted in Black institutional power. As African Americans, we must confront a painful irony—we have often celebrated access to systems that still view our presence as peripheral. Pan-Africanism demands more. Not a seat at the table. Ownership of the table. Redesign of the room. And the authority to define the very terms of what justice, equity, and inclusion mean for us. Until then, multiculturalism remains a house built on someone else’s foundation—and the door is never truly ours to open. Continue reading
Without Control of the Governor’s Office, Public HBCUs Will Always Be in Danger
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” – Robert A. Heinlein On the leafy campus of Fort Valley State University, a public historically Black college nestled in the heart of Georgia’s agricultural belt, students move between … Continue reading
Keisha Lance Bottoms: The FAMU Mayor of Atlanta Looks to Become FAMU Governor of Georgia
“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” – Shirley Chisholm ATLANTA, GA — Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has officially announced her candidacy for governor of Georgia, setting the stage for a high-stakes political race that could reshape the state’s political future. Bottoms, … Continue reading
The Individual Joy & Institutional Disappointment Of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Nomination – And The Problematic Issue That Harvard & Yale Dominate The Supreme Court
“White liberals are those who have perfected the art of selling themselves to the black man as our ‘friend’ to get our sympathy, our allegiance and our minds. The white liberal attempts to use us politically against white conservatives, so that anything the black man does is never for his own good, never for his … Continue reading
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