Koritha Mitchell

Jan 15, 2025 | nbcnews.com | David Hodari |Keir Simmons |Koritha Mitchell

Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire Wednesday, a deal that will end 15 months of fighting in Gaza, senior Hamas and Qatari officials said. The hard-won agreement will also free dozens of hostages held in Gaza, as well as Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, bringing the first real break in violence since a weeklong truce expired on Dec. 1, 2023.

Jul 29, 2024 | msn.com | Koritha Mitchell

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Jul 29, 2024 | time.com | Koritha Mitchell

IdeasBy Koritha MitchellJuly 29, 2024 3:51 PM EDTMitchell is author of From Slave Cabins to the White House and Living with Lynching and editor of the Broadview Edition of Iola Leroy. On July 21, President Joe Biden ended his bid for re-election and endorsed Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for President. That night, 44,000 Black women congregated via Zoom and raised more than $1M for the Harris campaign. The next day, Black men gathered online with similar results.

Mar 9, 2024 | msnbc.com | Koritha Mitchell

The United States Postal Service is releasing today a series of stamps honoring “10 of the heroes of the Underground Railroad,” a network of activists who helped 19th-century African Americans obtain freedom when keeping human beings and their descendants enslaved for life was the law of the land. The 10 people being commemorated are Harriet Tubman, William Still, Thomas Garrett, Laura Haviland, the Rev.

Jan 4, 2024 | msnbc.com | Koritha Mitchell

In her op-ed Wednesday in The New York Times, Claudine Gay, who resigned as the first Black president of Harvard University the day before, after allegations of plagiarism in her scholarly work, writes that “The campaign against me was about more than one university and one leader.” She called the right-wing attacks that led to her resignation “a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society.” That may be true, but there’s another way that the attacks...