By: Breanna Edwards President Barack Obama appears July 14, 2016, at a town hall airing on ABC in the aftermath of two black men being killed by police under dubious circumstances…
By: David Malebranche President Barack Obama Uriel Sinai/Getty Images Dear President Obama: As a black man, I have cried more times than I care to admit in the past week, particularly after…
President Barack Obama. By Patrisse Cullors, Guardian UK Just days after several violent, deadly attacks on black people at the hands of the police, ABC invited families, organizers, officers and…
Professor Cornel West. (photo: VICE) By Cornel West, Guardian UK Along and deep legacy of white supremacy has always arrested the development of US democracy. We either hit it head…
By Kali Holloway / AlterNet Almost 160,000 prisoners are currently serving life sentences in the United States; nearly 50,000 incarcerated people serving terms of life without parole. While mass incarceration has become a…
Directing Dollars Seen As a Way To Protest Recent Shootings Thousands Make Deposits in Black-owned Banks Michael Grant, President, National Bankers Association Reacting to the most recent wave of…
By: Jeanne Theoharis Martin Luther King Jr. (second from left) and his wife, Coretta Scott King, lead a civil rights march from Selma, Ala., to the state capital in Montgomery in…
On Wednesday, President Obama met at the White House with law enforcement officials and civil rights leaders. President Obama hosted the meeting one week after the fatal police shootings of…
(Left to right) Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza. Courtesy of Patrisse Cullors; Hank Willis Thomas/Courtesy of Opal Tometi; Kristin Little/Courtesy of Alicia Garza The Black Lives Matter movement…
By Jelani Cobb The least disputable measure of a bad week is any seven-day period that requires a body count at the end of it. Seven Americans in three different cities…
By: Charles D. Ellison Mourners sing and clap their hands at the Police Headquarters memorial for officers killed in the recent sniper attack in Dallas, Texas on July 10, 2016. The…
By Dr Wendy C. Grenade The heads of government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) met in Guyana 4-6 July 2016 for their 37th regular conference. This meeting was held in…