By: Lauren Victoria Burke A Black Lives Matter protester is kept out of the main ballroom during the U.S. Conference of Mayors 84th Winter Meeting at the Capitol Hilton in…
By Mo Barnes Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has decided to enter the heated debate over reparations for the American slave trade and its aftereffects. At a recent campaign appearance at Tindley…
By Robert Borosage Bernie Sanders swamped Hillary Clinton in the Wisconsin Democratic primary Tuesday. Ted Cruz won big over Donald Trump on the Republican side. The chances for a contested Republican convention increased…
State of the Black World Forum with Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, Rev. Dennis Dillon and Dr. Ron Daniels, Saturday, April 16th @ 2pm. 1061 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11238. Call…
By Kirsten West SavaliThough the United States government has wrapped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy in the American flag, waving his words to symbolize racial harmony and patriotic solidarity even as…
By Joan WalshTwitter Congresswoman Donna Edwards (Courtesy of the Donna Edwards for Senate campaign) Baltimore —It’s a Saturday morning in early March, and a multiracial group of Unite Here Local 7 members are playing an…
By Chuck Collins As global wealth concentrates in fewer hands, the world’s wealthy are shifting trillions to offshore havens to escape taxation, accountability, and publicity. The just-released Panama Papers—filled with titillating details…
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson The awful transformation of Bernie Sanders has been absolutely breath stopping to see. Sanders has gone from a charming, engaging, provoking, and supremely principled Democratic presidential…
By Douglas Foster People gather on the Nelson Mandela Bridge for the “Zuma Must Fall“ protest against South African President Jacob Zuma in Johannesburg on December 16, 2015. (Rex Features via…
By: Sarah-Joyce Battersby George Talusan / George Talusan LaTanya Grant speaks to the rally. Her cousin Jermaine Carby was shot dead by Peel police in Brampton in 2014. Sleeping in shifts,…
Above photo: Original caption (1836): “Franklin & Armfield’s Slave Prison.” Franklin & Armfield was a Virginia slave trading firm. (American Anti-Slavery Society) Starting Sept. 9, prisoners in the United States will begin a…
By: Damaso Reyes Born in the 1960s the son of a white German mother and an African student, Thomas Hurst has struggled to find acceptance in his home country. He is…