The biggest problems facing the US
In an Oct. 2019 national survey, one-third of respondents said that poor leadership is the most important problem facing the country today.

The government/poor leadership 34%
Immigration 13%
Economic problems 11%
Race relations/racism 6%
Health care 5%
Unifying the country 5%
Environment/pollution/climate change 4%
Poverty/hunger/homelessness 3%
Ethics/moral/religious/family decline 3%
Lack of respect for each other 3%
Guns/gun control2%
Education 2%
Crime/violence 2%
Judicial system/courts/laws 2%
Drugs 2%
Abortion 1%
International issues/problems
1%
Elections/election reform 1%
The media 1%
Foreign policy/foreign aid/focus overseas 1%
Terrorism 1%
Wars/war/fear of war 1%
Other non-economic 5%
Categories less than 0.5% not

On this fifth day of Kwanzaa, we celebrate Nia, which means purpose, and also surges in popularity as a name every time Nia Long releases a film. “Imani” is the only other principle that even comes close, according to research...

But for this last year of the decade, the woman who epitomizes true purpose is none other than Maxine Moore Waters, aka “Auntie Maxine,” who almost to the day three years ago said she would fight that Orange Menace “every step of the way

On this fifth day of Kwanzaa, we celebrate Nia, which means purpose, and also surges in popularity as a name every time Nia Long releases a film. “Imani” is the only other principle that even comes close, according to research...

But for this last year of the decade, the woman who epitomizes true purpose is none other than Maxine Moore Waters, aka “Auntie Maxine,” who almost to the day three years ago said she would fight that Orange Menace “every step of the way

some years, when we say an entity (person, persons of note, or not) embodies Umoja, or unity, the first principle of Kwanzaa, it is because their actions bring together the larger black community (see Tarana Burke in 2017). Other times, it’s more about a personal manifestation of unity (see the workers of KFC in 2018). This year, it’s a bit of both.

This year, Nikole Hannah-Jones is the embodiment of unity, especially for her behemoth enterprise, The 1619 Project, which ran in the New York Times this August. The 1619 Project commemorated the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American chattel slavery, where, to paraphrase Malcolm X, “Plymouth Rock (in this case Point Comfort, Va.) landed on us