When schools let out for summer break, usually between mid-May and mid-June, millions of students will be disengaged from learning and will experience significant learning loss.

Where are the Democrats? What are they doing about the damage President Trump is doing to … everything?

The smoke has already arrived. This past week, thick plumes from wildfires in Manitoba and Saskatchewan drifted into the U.S., triggering air quality alerts across the Midwest. Cities like Milwaukee, Madison and Chicago are experiencing hazy skies and dangerous air …

Two years ago, the Tennessee Three (Reps. Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson) gave us their version of “good trouble” when they led a protest from the floor of the state legislature chamber. While the Tennessee lawmakers may have …

I can hardly think of President Trump and Africa without also remembering his global insult to underdeveloped nations.

Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey’s 10th District visited the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, joined by fellow U.S. Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez.

“All Americans are entitled to live with the confidence that the law enforcement officers and agencies in their communities will live up to our Nation’s founding ideals and will protect the rights of all persons. Particularly in African-American communities, we …

President Trump’s refugee policy reminds me of what automaker Henry Ford supposedly said about his company’s Model T: “A customer can have a car painted any color he wants as long as it’s black.”

When we discuss health care, we often think of physicians, hospitals and medications. However, my day-to-day work as a nurse and professor of nursing teaching health policy and advocacy to nurse practitioner students makes it clear that our community and …

“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 frothings of a puffed-up president who fancies himself a king.” …

Once loyal Chicagoans got over the double shock of hearing that a local native, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has been named the 267th pope, some critically important, locally familiar questions came up:

The United States’ relationship with diversity, equity and inclusion is not anomalous—it is as American as discrimination itself. Since Donald Trump’s first term in office, DEI has become a central political focus of his administration, matching previous efforts in principle …

On the night of Jan. 11, 1989, near the end of a 21-minute farewell address, President Ronald Reagan asked the television audience, “How stands ‘The City’ on this winter night?” The City—a reimagined America based off highly controversial pioneer John …

Will Donald Trump have Chicago to kick around anymore? That question, an update of Richard Nixon’s memorable farewell to news reporters as he dropped out of the California governor’s race in 1962, came to mind on the heels of some …

As a record number of pilgrims representing all walks of life filled the streets of Rome to mourn the death of “The People’s Pope,” history will indicate the fiercest critics of the Francis Pontificate were American Catholics. This should come …