
By Jeff Cohen — Corporate mainstream media have sanitized and distorted the life and teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., putting him in the category of a “civil rights leader” who focused…
IBW21 (The Institute of the Black World 21st Century) is committed to enhancing the capacity of Black communities in the U.S. and globally to achieve cultural, social, economic and political equality and an enhanced quality of life for all marginalized people.
By Jeff Cohen — Corporate mainstream media have sanitized and distorted the life and teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., putting him in the category of a “civil rights leader” who focused…
All roads in the Pan African world lead to Newark November 16-20 for what has the potential to be one of the most historic great gatherings of people of African…
By Chris Hedges Above Photo: The Flint Water Plant tower in Michigan. (ehrlif / Shutterstock) What is in the mind of someone who knowingly poisons children and impairs their lives? Why did…
By Donna Murch In August 2015, an uncomfortable encounter between Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestors and Hillary Clinton finally broke the silence of many mainstream press outlets on the Clintons’…
By Ta-Nehisi Coates Tulsa burns in the race riots of 1921. Wikimedia There have been a number of useful entries in the weeks since Senator Bernie Sanders declared himself against reparations….
Haiti has reached a deal for a transitional government after President Michel Martelly’s term expired without an elected successor. Under the terms of the agreement, which was reached 22…
By Richard Eskow Economic inequality inspired Occupy Wall Street, a movement that in a few short months transformed our political discourse with the concept of the “1 percent” and the…
From The Baltimore Sun, Huffington Post, The Hill , , Former NAACP President Ben Jealous Backs Bernie Sanders By John Fritze The Baltimore Sun February 5, 2016…
By Richard Adams One of Britain’s elite universities defended its record on diversity on Sunday as the government said it should “shine a spotlight” on its admissions decisions for ethnic minority and…
By Jonathan Freedland In an interview at Columbia University, where she’s dean of social science, Nelson described DNA as containing a social power as well as a biological one. “We…
Deray McKesson has been one of the most vocal activists since the Ferguson shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in August 2014. Photograph: Michael B Thomas/AFP/Getty Images Prominent Black Lives Matter…
By Robert Maguire February 7, 2016 marks the 30th anniversary of the ouster of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier as President of Haiti, ending the 29 year Duvalier family dictatorship. When…