Pioneering psychiatrist, Dr. Phyllis Harrison-Ross, passes at 80 By Herb Boyd There’s a photo of Wayne State University’s College of Medicine graduating class in Detroit in 1959. Of the 66…
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Pioneering psychiatrist, Dr. Phyllis Harrison-Ross, passes at 80 By Herb Boyd There’s a photo of Wayne State University’s College of Medicine graduating class in Detroit in 1959. Of the 66…
By Juan Cole Trump’s cabinet has no Latinos, the first time that minority, which comprises 18 percent of Americans, is absent for twenty-five years. Trump famously accused Mexican-Americans…
By Gary Younge , , To celebrate its 225th anniversary, the US Mint and Treasury last week unveiled plans to issue a 24-carat commemorative coin depicting Lady Liberty as…
by Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq. Wealth and Debt in Black Communities: “If current economic trends continue, the average [B]lack household will need 228 years to accumulate as much wealth…
By Horace G. Campbell January 12, 2017 The current efforts to elect a new Chair of the AU Commission have been caught in the crosswinds of the impact of illicit…
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson The attacks by Trump, Trump’s Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus, and some GOP leaders on Georgia Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis for flatly calling…
By Melvin P. Foote The Congressional Black Caucus and 18 others from Congress, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Ndaba Mandela, and additional prominent people and organizations have written letters…
By Juliet Linderman and Eric Tucker In Baltimore’s Sandtown-WInchester, every day is an ongoing Katrina BALTIMORE (AP) — The scathing findings of a federal investigation into Baltimore police practices after…
By Jared Bernstein The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gestures during a speech at a Chicago Freedom Movement rally at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 10, 1966. (Afro…
by Westenley Alcenat For a brief moment recently, Haiti dominated the news cycle. As always, this American media attention only came in a moment of crisis. According to the Washington…
By Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet After a 13-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice released a 164-page report Friday detailing the abuse of force by the Chicago Police Department (CPD)….
By Roger Smith The Washington Spectator My hope is that this presentation of the underlying views of a majority of Americans will enable readers to oppose the false prophets of…