By Dewayne Wickham In the end, it was a diseased body and the infirmities of age that drained the life from Fidel Castro, not one of the many assassination plots…
By Caribbean News Now contributor ST GEORGE’S, Grenada — According to preliminary results published by the Parliamentary Elections Office, with 99 percent of polling stations reporting, Grenadians appear to…
The UWI Regional Headquarters Jamaica. 26 November 2016 – The UWI Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles announced the launch of UWItv, a new multimedia public information and education service….
By: Todd Steven Burroughs Fidel Castro meeting Malcolm X in 1960. Fidel Castro meeting Malcolm X in 1960. Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images The Harlem audience was determined…
By Maile Arvin If you want to shake up your family’s belief in the Thanksgiving myth this year, do so in a way that acknowledges Indigenous life today and…
By Robert Jensen / AlterNet One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National…
BY DOSHON FARAD NEWARK, NJ-For those of us who may not be old enough to remember the Pan Africanist conferences organized in the 1940s by W.E.B. Dubois and Booker…
by Patrick Bond Donald Trump is mostly bad news for Africa, including reduced U.S. aid and possibly more support for “imperial African adventurism” – unless, of course, Africa uses…
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Barack Obama on this night of his first election in Chicago. Donald Trump’s victory was a reaction to the first African-American president, Rev….
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet When Richard Spencer, a leading alt-right white power ideologue finished his speech at Saturday’s day-long “Become Who We Are” summit at Washington’s Ronald Reagan…
For Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, abolishing Obamacare is not enough to satisfy his radical right-wing cravings. He’s also getting ready to aim his wrecking ball…
By Brendan Gauthier / Salon Richard Spencer The anime Nazis — who fancy themselves “alt-righters” and scare pundits who take their meme threats seriously — have landed in Washington….