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Dolores Huerta Taught Me What It Means to Never Stop
Civil rights leader Ben Jealous pays tribute to Dolores Huerta, honoring the legendary farmworker organizer whose courage, activism and enduring message of “Sí, se puede” inspired generations to keep fighting for justice.
Ohio’s Governor Changed His Mind About Executions. Will Speaker Huffman Let Lawmakers Vote?
Ohio’s Republican governor once championed the death penalty but now says it has lost its moral justification—so why is bipartisan repeal legislation still stalled in the state legislature?
Could Trump’s Execution Push Help End the Death Penalty?
A canceled Fort Hood execution livestream, Republican calls for repeal and new questions about capital punishment are reshaping the national debate—with particular relevance for Texas.
Could Trump’s push for more executions backfire? From a controversial proposal to livestream a military execution to growing bipartisan calls for abolition, America’s death penalty debate is reaching a critical turning point—with Texas at the center.
Three Months, No Charges
A fatal ICE shooting in Maine exposes a troubling history of anti-immigrant and religious intolerance, prompting former NAACP president Ben Jealous to demand accountability, transparency and solidarity across racial and religious lines.
The First Columbus Day Was Declared in the Shadow of a Lynching
In the Windy City, Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells spotlighted what Washington wanted forgotten.
Troy Davis's Ghost Still Speaks After All These Years
Fifteen years after Georgia executed Troy Davis, Ben Jealous revisits the case, the fight against the death penalty and the three states he says could help move abolition forward.
What Is the Value of Ben & Jerry's Without the Values of Ben and Jerry?
Jerry Greenfield quit a year ago this week, saying the company had been silenced. Now he and Ben are asking for our help.
A Ben & Jerry’s co-founder says the brand’s corporate ownership is eroding the social values that helped make its name iconic—and is urging customers to push back.
A Wedding Party That Looked Like a Funeral
Next June marks 60 years since Loving v. Virginia. My parents did not wait for it.
They had to leave Maryland just to get married—but 60 years later, their love story stands as a powerful reminder of the courage it took to challenge a law that said they couldn’t be together.
Two Civil Rights Men, Different Parties, One Bill of Rights
Most gun deaths in this country are suicides. We argue about guns as if they were all murders
A powerful personal story challenges America to rethink guns, suicide, race, isolation and what it truly means to protect the right to a life filled with liberty.
American Men Have Been In Crisis for Generations. A Remedy from 1879 Offers Hope.
Working-class men of every color have been in crisis for generations. The way out is to come together, for the sake of all our kids.
Ben Jealous connects the crisis facing American men—from joblessness and violence to incarceration and suicide—to a deeper history of racial and economic division, invoking his ancestor Edward David Bland and Virginia’s Readjuster movement as a lesson in what working people can accomplish together.