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…
Robin D. G. Kelley Monday, March 7, 2016- bostonreview.net Editors’ Note: Answer Robin Kelley‘s call for a rebirth of political education by organizing a reading group. To help you get started,…
By: D. Watkins DeRay Mckesson It’s almost been a year since the death of Freddie Gray––the innocent 25-year-old, unarmed black man who was enjoying a nice April day near his home in…
by Richard W. Behan For 24 years Bill and Hillary Clinton have courted Wall Street money with notable success. During that time the New York banks contributed: * $11.17 million to…
By Janell Ross There are a series of disturbingly persistent themes in the many, many stories of unarmed and/or mentally ill Americans shot and killed by police. Among them are the…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Thursday March 17, 2016 – Six years after Haiti was devastated by the massive 2010 earthquake, many people in the impoverished Caribbean country continue to hold Hillary Clinton’s State Department…
By: Kirsten West Savali Donald Trump continues his march to the Republican presidential nomination, spurred on by tapping into the racist paranoia of white conservatives all across the country who…
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet Photo Credit: Image by Shutterstock, Copyright (c) Joseph Sohm Bernie Sanders’ historic and expectation-surpassing bid for the Democratic presidential nomination ran into hard reality in several pivotal…