By Nadia Prupis “Our children are going to be fine, but they’re going to be even better if we invest in them now,” Hanna-Attisha said. (Photo: Flint Journal) Flint children…
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By Nadia Prupis “Our children are going to be fine, but they’re going to be even better if we invest in them now,” Hanna-Attisha said. (Photo: Flint Journal) Flint children…
By Nyle Port The peculiar American sport that is the national election is back in season: Republicans vs. Democrats. Red states vs. blue states. Donald Trump fanatics attacking…
Fortune Magazine named the three founders of the Black Lives Matter movement to its 2016 list of the World’s Greatest Leaders. Absent from the list is President Barack Obama. Coming in…
A new generation of young leaders in Baltimore are largely organizing outside of congregations. What does this mean for their movement—and for the church? By Emma Green — The spirit…
By Hilary Hanson, Associated Press — An eye-opening remark from a former aide to President Richard Nixon pulls back the curtain on the true motivation of the United States’ war…
By Ron Howell Cuban journalist Marta Rojas “deserves a Pulitzer Prize or a Polk Award for her life’s work,” Ron Howell writes. (Photo: Miami Herald) The half-century embargo against Cuba…
By: DeWayne Wickham Men play chess in a boarded-up doorway in the historic Old Havana neighborhood of Havana March 20, 2016. On his first day in Cuba, President Barack Obama…
By Keith Humphreys Marijuana legalization is often touted as a sure route to ending racial disparities in pot-related arrests. But a just-released study indicates that African Americans in legalization states continue to endure…
By Saleem Gilmore I always thought that Angela Davis was a member of the Black Panther Party. To celebrate 50 years since the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland,…
By Michael D. Yates, Routledge | Book Excerpt (Image: Wealth shadow via Shutterstock) As a college teacher, I began telling my students in the early 1980s that we were witnessing the beginning of a rise…
By Les Leopold Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally at Hillside High School in Durham, North Carolina earlier this month. (Photo: Nathania Johnson/flickr/cc) The media tells us that Hillary has…
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.orgThe #BlackLivesMatter movement continues to grow its power and win notable victories, but the reality is that 600 hundred years of racial oppression, older than…