Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end of the day.
— Wayne Messam
We need to reform our immigration system from top to bottom and make sure our country is not only safer for, but also more inclusive of, immigrants.
Until we address the pervasive structural and interpersonal threats facing communities of color, we will remain unequipped to make equity a reality.
Attempts to minimize the deep racial wounds in our history only set our society as a whole back.
Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.
My parents immigrated to this country from Jamaica with no more than a fifth-grade education.
Any public official - regardless of political party - who fails to recognize the problem with devaluing subsections of your constituency is unfit to serve and must step aside.
The American people deserve to have access to as many qualified candidates as possible, not only the ones who can afford to buy name recognition or who already have it.
I was the first of my siblings born here in the United States.
As one of the largest states in the country, Florida's vibrant diversity is a key part of our nation's story.
Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans. These performances were based in contempt and gave people an opportunity to act out their prejudices.
As a son of Jamaican immigrants whose father cut sugarcane as a contract farm worker for over a decade and whose mother was a cook who fed those migrant workers out in the fields, the odds have always been against me growing up in rural South Bay, Fla.
