By Cristina Silva – The Sydney Peace Foundation announced last week it will give Black Lives Matter its 2017 peace prize during a ceremony scheduled in November for Sydney. The award recognizes the work of the founding leaders of the social justice activist network, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, who began working together…
Political philosophy journal, subject of two scathing open letters, apologizes for lack of black authors. By Scott Jaschik The June issue of The Journal of Political Philosophy devotes more than…
Sterling spent many years of his life entangled in the criminal legal system. By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson / Truthout On May 2, the Department of Justice declined to level federal charges against the…
By Stefan Richards Abstract: Reparation refers to the repairing of damage through the payment of money or through other methods employed by the offending party. This paper adds to the discussion…
The African-American history of the federal holiday has been nearly wiped from public memory. By Sarah Lazare – Union General John Logan is often credited with founding Memorial Day. The…
By Ben Becker – What we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by…
It would be nothing short of racist for Germany to deny the Herero and Nama people financial reparations, writes Shannon Ebrahim. Any time now we can expect Chancellor Angela Merkel…
By Kim Scipes Books Reviewed in this Essay: Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race. London and New York: Verso, 2012. Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never…
By Kate Aronoff – The city of Jackson, in the heart of staunchly Republican Mississippi, might seem an unlikely place for a municipal revolution. Yet Jackson’s radicalism has been forged in the crucible of massive disinvestment, both by private industry and by a conservative state legislature. Led by the Black nationalist organization Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, organizers in Jackson have backed experiments in everything from worker-owned businesses to participatory, neighborhood-by-neighborhood democracy.
Each Earth Day (April 22), it provides an important opportunity to focus on critical environmental issues in a post-Katrina era of devastating storms and flooding, increasingly disastrous climate change, continuing…
Of all the political spectacles of Donald Trump’s candidacy and presidency, few could match the improbability of his meeting in the Oval Office in late February with nearly 100 presidents…