Above Photo: Protesters shut down Lake Shore Drive in Chicago to demand the firing of Chicago police officer Dante Servin and the restoration of funding to Chicago State University. (Photo: Kelly…
Note: I knew Michael Ratner was ill and was hoping he would recover but sadly tonight we found out he didn’t. I got to know Michael when he was representing Julian Assange…
Above Photo: Lindsey Lunsford gathers peppers at TULIP’s community garden. Photo by Wil Sands. These Black farmers don’t stop at healthy food. They’re healing trauma, instilling collective values, and changing the…
By: Jason Johnson Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop in Rothschild, Wis., April 2, 2016. Political pundits said all last spring that Donald…
The Kalinago, Dominica’s indigenous people. (Photo: Dominica News Online) BELIZE CITY, Belize, Wednesday May 11, 2016 – The Caribbean’s indigenous people have called to be given a seat at the political table…
By Anton Edmunds At the end of a recent speech on US–Jamaica relations, former Jamaican diplomat Ambassador Curtis Ward weighed in on what he termed the “untapped technical expertise and…
By Libby Coleman The South was smoldering. A victory for the Union forces was just a few months away. Behind the Union, however, was something it wasn’t quite ready to deal…
Where Beyonce, Black Lives Matter and global history collide: The ‘Black Power’ salute at West Point
By Jaweed Kaleem Female cadets at West Point were accused of violating academy rules by making a political statement with a photo of them raising their fists. West Point officials…
By Bill Scher Donald Trump has a trick he likes to use when he wants to communicate two different messages to two different constituencies: incoherence. It doesn’t take much to…
Margareta Matache and Jacqueline Bhabha April 22, 2016 Foreign Policy in Focus The Romanian church, the aristocracy, and the state institutions inherited huge sums of wealth from…
By Dariel Garner Like Bill Gates, George Soros, Warren Buffett and H. Ross Perot, but not as lofty, I was once called a “self-made man.” I was an entrepreneur who…
By SIMON ROMERO A woman in a traditional hoop skirt walked past graves adorned with Confederate battle flags in Santa Bárbara d’Oeste, Brazil. An annual celebration of the area’s Confederate many…