This master seamstress, as her obituary stated, taught men and women “how to cut our lives out after the pattern of Allah (God).” She is surely a member of the contemporary sewing circles of Dorcas and Daughters of the Conference who mend more than clothes. Her remembrance echoes words from my column announcing my AME women’s anthology project: “We are stitching threads of faith into the sacred seams of our communities with hands of love.”

Asked to choose between two statements, Americans are more than twice as likely to agree that “we are in real danger of losing important democratic rights and freedoms” than to agree that “the important democratic rights and freedoms we have will remain protected” (68% vs. 29%). In a pattern that repeats itself throughout the survey, overwhelming numbers of Democrats (86%) and independents (70%) agree with the first statement, while Republicans are divided between the two statements (51% vs. 47%).

By Antjuan Seawright, Columnist Have you ever noticed that every time voters of color stand up and start leading the charge for change against this MAGA failure, President Trump finds… Read More »

Juneteenth, established on June 19, 1865, commemorates the date when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that the Civil War had ended and that all enslaved Black Americans were free. This fundamentally moved the country toward “a more perfect union,” as stated in the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1865. The Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth together reflect the deep lamentations and the hopes of people of African descent in the United States.