by Ricardo Vaz Sunday, July 16, was a significant day in Venezuela’s political history. The right-wing opposition MUD, backed by the United States, threw all its weight behind a “consultation”…
By Al Calloway Typically, too many African American political leaders, preachers and so-called intellectuals shy away from the issue of Reparations. As a result, the black body politic has not…
A voter listens to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speak in South Carolina a day after her debate with rival candidate Bernie Sanders on Feb. 12, 2016, in Denmark, S.C….
Gwendolyn Brooks’s life and work asserted the humanity of black people in America. By Lovia Gyarkye The opening lines of Gwendolyn Brooks’s epic “The Anniad” are, like the rest of…
Ava DuVernay arrives on set ready to work. It’s summer in New Orleans and the heat is sticky. Even the room-temperature bottles of water are sweating. But DuVernay seems impervious….
Above Photo: Danny Glover (center) joins Nissan workers for the March on Mississippi, March 4, 2017 (Ariel Cobbert / Daily Mississippian) The workers at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi,…
A proposed resolution advocates for overturning the 17th Amendment so Republican-controlled state legislatures could pick senators. By John Nichols The United States Senate is an undemocratic institution. Just do the…
By Dr. Jahi Issa and Reggie Mabry The moral case for Black reparations has effectively been made, but the legal argument has met much frustration in the courts. The authors…
Above Photo: From thenextsystem.org William A. Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel…
By Greg Palast Why would somebody say a crazy statement like that?” Bernie had his arms spread like gull wings, fingers scribbling facts in the air. “Why” was not really…
By Tess Raser, Truthout As a young Black teacher, I feel empathy for every person I hear is taken from us by state-sanctioned violence — whether through the carceral state or…
By Melanie Zanona HAVANA — All around Havana, local Cuban entrepreneurs refer to the day President Trump unveiled his new policy toward the country simply as “June 16.” It’s easy…