
BY JESSE JACKSON Sexual boasting, emails, tax returns, deplorables — the second presidential debate Sunday featured insults wrapped up in put-downs. This debate was held within miles of Ferguson, Mo., but it…
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BY JESSE JACKSON Sexual boasting, emails, tax returns, deplorables — the second presidential debate Sunday featured insults wrapped up in put-downs. This debate was held within miles of Ferguson, Mo., but it…
By Nathalie Baptiste / AlterNet Body cameras were going to be black America’s saving grace. Technology was going to bring to light the horrors of police violence in communities of color, while…
By Renee Feltz The report from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration calls on lawmakers to address the disparate rates of detention and deportation for black immigrants., Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images , It…
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump turns Will Rogers famed maxim that he never met a man he didn’t like on its head every time when…
By Karin Kamp Alicia Garza, who cofounded Black Lives Matter along with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, speaks after being presented with a public service award at Harvard Memorial Church in…
By Janelle Odionou Prof. William Darity, public policy, Duke University, and Kirsten Mullen, a folklorist and art consultant, addressed racial discrimination and its profound effect on economic inequality in the United…
By Jeff Guo The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in the District. The civil rights leader also had a dream that one day there would be economic opportunity and economic justice…
BY JESSE JACKSON October 4, 2016 Blessed are those who plant seeds in the faith that others might enjoy the forest. This Saturday is my 75th birthday. I have been blessed to…
By Nick Turse FROM HIGH ABOVE, Agadez almost blends into the cocoa-colored wasteland that surrounds it. Only when you descend farther can you make out a city that curves around…
From the Desk of Joe Beasley A Global Human Rights & Civil Rights Activist An Open Letter to Pope Francis His Holiness Pope Francis Apostolic Palace Vatican City 00120 September…
By Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan The national scope of the prisoner strike, with actions in 40 to 50 prisons around the U.S., is truly historic. (Photo: Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA…
By Tony Newman / AlterNet Photo Credit: Debby Wong / Shutterstock.com For years hip-hop artists have rapped about drug use, the drug trade and the drug war. And now, we are seeing…