By Janell Ross There are a series of disturbingly persistent themes in the many, many stories of unarmed and/or mentally ill Americans shot and killed by police. Among them are the…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Thursday March 17, 2016 – Six years after Haiti was devastated by the massive 2010 earthquake, many people in the impoverished Caribbean country continue to hold Hillary Clinton’s State Department…
By: Kirsten West Savali Donald Trump continues his march to the Republican presidential nomination, spurred on by tapping into the racist paranoia of white conservatives all across the country who…

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet Photo Credit: Image by Shutterstock, Copyright (c) Joseph Sohm Bernie Sanders’ historic and expectation-surpassing bid for the Democratic presidential nomination ran into hard reality in several pivotal…

Danny Glover to join us for SOBWC IV The Institute of the Black World 21st Century has tapped Danny Glover, Actor, Humanitarian, Activist and Chairman of the Trans-Africa Forum to…

By Richard Behan / AlterNet Photo Credit: Anthony Correia / Shutterstock For 24 years Bill and Hillary Clinton have courted Wall Street money with notable success. During that time the New York…

By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet Photo Credit: Image by Shutterstock, Copyright (c) Joseph Sohm Tuesday’s presidential primaries in five states is going to be the most important day so far for 2016 contests…

By: Breanna Edwards 498788632-demonstrators-confront-police-during-a-protest-over-the Demonstrators confront police during a protest over the death of Laquan McDonald on Nov. 25, 2015, in Chicago. Federal prosecutors declined to bring charges against…

By Christian Christensen The media (and this photoshop effort) have often made appear Donald Trump appear larger than he is. “For pundits and journalists in the US it’s convenient to…

A recent article in the Atlantic summed up this perspective with the tagline, “At this polarized moment, it’s incremental change or nothing.” This view, however, leaves out a critical driver of social transformation….

Pundits wrote the socialist senator off after Super Tuesday, but he came roaring back with a stunning upset in Michigan. Now his formidable ground campaign is kicking into high gear in…

As presidential campaigns descend on Illinois for Tuesday’s primary, a closely watched local race could yield the first electoral impact of the Black Lives Matter movement and the nationwide conversation on police killings. Incumbent…