By Vijay Prashad What is happening in America? The city of Milwaukee in the State of Wisconsin was convulsed in violence after the fatal shooting of a black man by police…
Wallposters from the group “Se Acabaron las Promesas” placed in several cities in Puerto Rico informing citizens of the protest that took place on August 31. Photo from Jornada’s Facebook…
by Ian Scoville (Hoya Staff Writer, September 9, 2016) A group of descendants of the 272 slaves sold by Georgetown University in 1838 is seeking to establish a $1 billion foundation…
By Emma Niles Above Photo: A banner over a Denver freeway supports the prison strike. (It’s Going Down / Twitter)On Sept. 9, 1971, prisoners staged a takeover of Attica State Penitentiary, New York state’s…
By Jane McAlevey Photo Credit: twbuckner / Wikimedia The following is an adapted excerpt from the new book No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey (Oxford…
By Jesse Hagopian, Truthout Tonya Ray, center, a math teacher at the Academy of Public Leadership, talking with students in Detroit, May 11, 2016. (Joshua Lott / The New York Times) The…
By David Edwards Photo Credit: CNN Former CNN host Soledad O’Brien blasted the cable news business over the weekend for profiting off the hate speech that has fueled Donald Trump’s…
By Alan Levinovitz A clerk holds US 100-dollar notes at a money changer shop in Jakarta on August 22, 2013. In his new book, The Market As God, theologian Harvey Cox…
By Antonio Moore A USDA report is exposing a massive disparity between white and black land ownership in the United States. The five largest landowners in America, all white, own…
By: Breanna Edwards Protesters rally against police brutality at City Hall Park, Aug. 1, 2016, in New York City. Drew Angerer/Getty Images An increasing number of white youth are expressing support…
by Robert J. Barsocchini As Colin Kaepernick’s choice to remain seated for the US national anthem continues to highlight and provoke conversation about racism and oppression in the country,…
The African Descendant population of Brazil (approx 100 million) is greater than the combined population of Ghana and Kenya. But, you would never know it when you look at…