Editorial OUR VOICES: New Fire, Familiar Injustice By Ben Jealous (TriceEdneyWire.com) – A lightning strike and a small fire are all it took this weekend to remind residents in South Louisiana... Texas Metro NewsJune 20, 2023
News JEALOUS: Under-Controlled Coal-Fired Power Plants Still Threaten Americans’ Health By Ben Jealous Tatum is an East Texas town of about 1,300 people, closer to Shreveport than Dallas. It’s on the north shore of Martin... Texas Metro NewsJune 3, 2023
Editorial It’s time for banks to make good on their pledge to end fossil fuel financing By Ben Jealous ConocoPhillips needs more than the disastrous approval it won from the Biden administration last week to proceed with its Willow oil... Texas Metro NewsApril 6, 2023
News A Historic Vote and the Tools It Gave Us By Ben Jealous Via TriceEdneyWire.Com Vice President Kamala Harris is sure to be remembered every March in Women’s History Month as the first woman and... Texas Metro NewsMarch 16, 2023
Editorial Our Voices: It Shouldn’t Take a Fiery Crash and Toxic Spill to Push Action on Railroad Safety By Ben Jealous People around East Palestine, Ohio, have been warned not to run their vacuum cleaners. That was the reality two weeks after... Texas Metro NewsMarch 8, 2023
Editorial Taking on the symptom that is gun violence and the disease behind it By BEN JEALOUS We’ve had more mass shootings this year than we’ve had days this year. It’s sad to imagine that Half Moon Bay... Texas Metro NewsFebruary 15, 2023
Editorial OUR VOICES: How We Can Influence the Cour ts That Influence Our Lives? By Ben Jealous As I write this, the final few races are being called in the midterm elections that were held weeks ago. It’s... Texas Metro NewsDecember 8, 2022
News COMMENTARY: “Grateful After the November Mid-Term Results NNPA NEWSWIRE — To further resist the threat of authoritarianism, we must lift up young leaders who will be democracy’s champions for this and... Texas Metro NewsDecember 3, 2022
Editorial OUR VOICES: We still need affirmative action By Ben Jealous I am deeply concerned about two affirmative action cases argued at the Supreme Court just a few days ago. Opponents of... Texas Metro NewsNovember 30, 2022
Editorial Our Voices: Tell the Supreme Court: We Still Need Affirmative Action By Ben Jealous One of the great joys of my life is teaching. I’m fortunate to teach classes on social justice at the University... Texas Metro NewsNovember 25, 2022