Haitians of every class within Haiti must be at the center of relief efforts because only they know what Haiti needs. By Cécile Accilien, Truthout — Almost exactly 230 years…
By John Stoehr, AlterNet — The conventional wisdom in Washington already appears to be that the president made a huge mistake by failing to evacuate Americans and Afghans before that…
The Afghan government was built on corruption for more than a century. The Taliban exploited it. By Ali A. Olomi, The Washington Post — President Biden made the withdrawal of…
By Global Americans — On Saturday, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake—more powerful than the 7.0 magnitude quake that savaged the country in 2010, killing nearly 200,000 and causing billions of dollars…
By Patterson Deppen, TomDispatch — It was the spring of 2003 during the American-led invasion of Iraq. I was in second grade, living on a U.S. military base in Germany,…
By Kevin Waite, The Conversation — The history of American slavery generally conjures a set of familiar images: sprawling plantations white with cotton, gangs of enslaved African Americans stooped low…
Evanston was the first city to implement a plan to repair the harm caused by slavery – and what occurred there could set the tone for what may happen at…
The U.S. has nothing to show for its efforts after trillions of dollars were spent on wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and beyond, but blood in the sand. By Jeffrey…
By Michelle Robertson, SFGATE — One thousand two hundred and seventy. It’s a number Felisia Thibodeaux can list off the top of her head. That’s because it’s the number of…
While in Ghana, the siblings will meet government officials, visit historic sites and participate in a traditional naming ceremony. By J.L. Cook, The Root — Viola “Mother” Fletcher and Hughes…
By Stabroek News — There are those who might argue that fate could have at least held off on Haiti’s latest tragedy, the country’s devastating earthquake and its horrendous consequences…
“We are the only thing here,” said a cleric in Les Cayes, one of the cities worst hit by the quake. In some towns, not a church was left standing. By Maria Abi-Habib and Andre Paultre, NYT — PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The houses collapsed, the hospitals were damaged, the roads buckled or turned impassable. But it was the earthquake’s destruction of churches across Haiti’s southern peninsula…