By the Caribbean Journal staff United States Vice President Joe Biden chaired a major summit in Washington DC this week covering Caribbean energy. The US-Caribbean and Central America Energy…
By Mark Karlin A camera records Donald Trump speaking at a campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio, November 23, 2015. Many in the news media feel their profession has been complicit in…
By Ben Morken The rally took place at a capacity crowd of more than 56,000 people at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, a township with deep revolutionary roots and immense historic…
By JACQUELINE WOODSON When James Baldwin died in December of 1987, I was 24 years old, living in a neighborhood jokingly referred to as Dyke Slope because…
BY Shaun King Kevin C. Downs/for New York Daily News Black Lives Matter protesters, in Brooklyn in 2016, must be aware of potential acts of undermining by the government. “Those…
By Richard Sudan In this handout picture taken 15 August 1947, British Governor-General Lord Mountbatten (C) gestures as he rides in a carriage alongside Lady Edwina Mountbatten prior to witnessing…
Puerto Rico Legislature in San Juan. Photo: Wikimedia/CC By Caribbean News Now contributor WASHINGTON, USA — Puerto Rico is facing a major debt crisis, and the US territory announced on Sunday that…
May 3rd 12:21 PM (5 minutes ago) Michel Martin, Emmy Award-winning journalist and weekend host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” asks former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder a question…
By Bob Lord Imagine, after a deep sleep, you suffered the fate of Rip Van Winkle and woke in the spring of 2040. What might you find? Among other things,…
By Ras Memnon Fanon broke it down.… In his classic work, “The Wretched of The Earth,” Frantz Fanon stated that “the governments of the various European nations called for reparations…
By MARK KARLIN The White House and Capitol were primarily built by slaves, as Washington — which had legal slavery until 1863 — remains a colony. (Photo: Frank Camp) It…
By Robin Scher / AlterNet Let’s face it, young Americans are fed up with the economic status quo. If this fact is not evident enough from the groundswell of millennial support for…