By Elizabeth Preza / AlterNet A new report from the Economic Policy Institute reveals a stark disparity between the hourly pay of blacks and whites; on average, whites make 26.7 percent more…
By Patrick Hilsman Thirty-eight-year-old Terrill Thomas was arrested in connection to a shooting and taken to Milwaukee County Jail. Nine days later, he was dead of dehydration. His death has been ruled…
By Sharda Sekaran Step one: Make sure you have a badge and the person you are murdering is black. Step two: Add drugs. Terence Crutcher was gunned down by a…
By Ari BermanTwitter Voters wait in line outside the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland during early voting in November 2012. (AP Photo / Mark Duncan) The Supreme Court today declined…
By Jake Johnson ‘Whether she is writing of Kashmir or of the Palestinians, of American foreign policy or of terror in the Middle East, of environmental degradation or of…
By Shawn Fremstad In 1963, the poverty line for a family of four was 50% below median family income—or one-half of the income of the typical four-person family in America….
By Jessica Faieta Caribbean countries make a special case for development. The high and increasing exposure to hazards, combined with very open and trade-dependent economies with limited diversification and competitiveness…
By Frank Joyce / AlterNet Slaves during slavery in the South. Photograph display on Gullah culture at Boone Hall Plantation. Photo Credit: Flickr, denisbin Slavery as practiced in what is now the…
By Natalia Khosla, Sean McElwee / Salon House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (C) talks to reporters after meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder in the US Captiol June 19. Barack…
Above Photo:EPI analysis of Current Population Survey microdata. The White House is making one last push for passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. However, growing imports of goods from low-wage, less-developed…
From left, Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack walk out after their meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington…
By Jeffrey Darko Before the advent of modern day political civilization the idea was clear and simple not concealed as it is today. Africans understood what it meant.What?Liberation!It was all about…