By Thomas Wood – A voter casts a ballot in Georgetown, Wis., on Nov. 8, 2016. (Nicki Kohl/Telegraph Herald via AP) By Thomas Wood During the 2016 presidential campaign, many observers wondered exactly what motivated voters most: Was it income? Authoritarianism? Racial attitudes? Let the analyses begin. Last week, the widely respected 2016 American National Election Study was released, sending political scientists into a flurry of data modeling and chart making.
The U.S. Chapter of the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity support a peaceful, self-determined, sovereign, constitutionalsolution to the internal ideological and political struggles among…
On March 24, 2017 the United Nations commemorated its ten-year anniversary for the International Day of Remembrance honoring the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This year, the theme chosen for the commemoration is “Remember Slavery: Recognizing the Legacy and Contributions of People of African Descent.” In the keynote address…
On the eve of the Security Council’s decision to closedown the MINUSTAH, the highly criticized mission it has maintained in Haiti since 2004, five Nobel Peace Prize Laureates call on the UN to ensure reparations and an end to impunity for the mass human rights violations committed by its troops.
Emphasizes Research-based Approaches to Promote Public Health and Safety and Reduce Negative Impact of Past and Current Policies. Advocates Call for People Who Use Drugs and People in Recovery to be Immediately Involved in City’s Drug Strategy Coordination.
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By Larnies A. Bowen and Ayanna Legros – Cláudia Silva Ferreira, Eric Garner, Korryn Gaines, Jonathan Moreira, Aiyanna Stanley-Jones, Freddie Gray, Rogério Silva … Naming as a strategy to counter the official devaluation of Black life has become a crucial tactic in today’s movements against racialized violence. In 2014, the same year that the recording of Eric Garner’s killing…
Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic by Michelle D. Commander, Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism by Charles W. Mills, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture by Britt Rusert, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World by Rachel Dolezal with Storms Reback…
By Adele M. Stan – A pattern is emerging in the administration’s scandal-defense playbook: Go after black women. It’s no secret that a toxic combination of misogyny and racism helped Donald J. Trump win the presidency. Never mind dog whistles and code—Trump proudly displayed his contempt for women and non-white people throughout his campaign. But another likely helper to that victory was one whose involvement Trump and his allies would prefer to have kept under wraps: the government of Russia, a U.S. adversary.
By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout Donald Trump ran a campaign to “make America great again,” promising the creation of high-paid manufacturing jobs and the restoration of the middle class. Yet, his…
By Peniel E. Joseph – Three years after BLM launched a nationwide uprising against police violence, what’s next for the movement? In this special section, a leading African American historian explores how the group is forging a powerful new form of civil rights activism. Plus: How police in 1970s Detroit unleashed an undercover execution squad, and the modern-day rise of “warrior policing.”
By Valerie Wilson, Janelle Jones – Over the last several decades, black workers have been offering more to the economy and the labor market to incredibly disappointing results in pay and unemployment. Some have argued that the disparity in wages between blacks and white is the result of white workers working longer and harder than black workers…