This is not a progressive issue or a conservative issue. This is not a Tea Party issue or a liberal issue. This is an American issue. Money is destroying our politics and our political system. The signs are everywhere. A "super PAC" supporting Mitt Romney spent $3.5 million to knock...

As we celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr, it appears we are a far less prejudiced country than we once were. Individual expressions of racism are less tolerated than ever, we have an African-American President, and African-Americans are increasingly being accepted into executive suites. Yet when...

What happened in Iowa only represents the latest regressive manifestation of how huge amounts of money are used to not only fund negative attack ads and to the determine to winner of the political process, but more importantly exposes how the cruel manipulation of American democracy continues.

Getting the...

It's time to free American democracy from the devastating social and economic consequences of the systemic and wholesale bribery of politicians and elected officials. Thanks to the growing Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, the consciousness of millions of people across the United States has been irreversible raised about this counterproductive...

I go down to Zuccotti Park everyday to hang out with the young people there. Every so often when I'm not in the park, I read in the newspaper or see on TV that I'm part of the one percent and why I shouldn't be there.

I have never felt...

The big banks are in the doghouse again. Over the last couple of years, there has been constant discussion about the big banks' inability to serve middle class and low income Americans at a reasonable rate.

I'm talking, of course, about recent news that Bank of America,...

Our system of justice is SUPPOSED to convict a citizen when there is beyond a reasonable doubt. Especially when it comes to the brutal business of the government taking a man's life. A man, a black American man, Troy Davis, is about to be killed in Georgia, tonight, Wednesday, September...

Obama laid out his case to the people and his challenge to Congress in his jobs speech this evening. Many in politics might want to argue out their differences at the ballot box, but that's fourteen months away. The president said what the users of my Rushcard tell us every...

I am saddened, but not surprised, that the forces that strive to keep us divided have silenced a vital dialogue in a Synagogue in West Hampton, N.Y., in which Rev. Al Sharpton and Rabbi Marc Schneier of the Foundation For Ethnic Understanding strove to bridge a deeply troubled part in...

My brother, Danny, recently reminded me of the time my father took us both to the front of a picket line. I was two, my brother was six. It was 1959. My father was an activist and that day he was gonna show his two boys just how daddy did...

Danny Simmons: The history of our nonprofit Rush Philanthropic is a family history, one of brothers helping one another to help those less fortunate than themselves.

One of my earliest memories was walking a picket line holding my fathers hand with Russell sitting on...

Last time I wrote a blog challenging my Democrat friends, this time it's the Republican's turn.

To all my Republican friends, billionaires and multi-millionaires, stop bitching and pay your damn taxes. How dare you make record profits and not want to contribute more to fixing our problems while...

In 2008 this country was in a crisis, and we came together and worked tirelessly to bring in leadership to steer us through treacherous, scary times. Today, we are at a crossroads in the road to recovery from that crisis and as we head toward the election of 2012, our...

Fox News has always been the enemy to many on the left. The place where "fair and balanced news" is often tilted like a broken pinball machine. Where talking point memos are created as marching orders for conservative America. A network that we assume to be evil, yet what is...

Co-authored by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

40 years ago today, President Richard Milhous Nixon declared America's "War on Drugs." This failed war continues even today to have a devastating and debilitating impact on the lives of millions of Americans. We add our voices to the growing number of people...

On Monday, I will be delivering the opening keynote address at the Urban Entrepreneurship Summit at Rutgers Business School in Newark, which is being co-hosted by the White House. It is a pleasure to work closely with this great president and his administration to support private/public relationships like this one....

Dear Mr. President,

I listened to your speech last week at Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network's 20th anniversary dinner, talking among friends and close supporters. This was an annual African American dinner, a very important one. While I know that any Democrat would have fulfilled their promise to come...

He was staying off the stage, although I had seen him as Master of Ceremonies all night. He was not present as I stood on stage prepared to give Sean Combs the "Renaissance Man Of The Decade, " his well-deserved award, at the annual Jackie Robinson foundation event. Sean had...

There's a lot not to like about next week's Congressional hearings into "Islamic Radicalization," but one of its most appalling aspects is the naked hypocrisy of the hearing's chairman, Republican Peter King of New York.

Until now, Rep. King has been best known for his very public

I have been thinking a lot about the last recorded words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., before a lone gunman took his life as he rested on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. It was 43 years ago this month that Dr. King traveled to Memphis...