BY JESSE JACKSON February 2, 2016 The basic story of the poisoning of the children of Flint, Mich., through the water they drink is now pretty well known, but…
By: Nigel Roberts President Barack Obama tours the Blue Mosque on April 7, 2009, in Istanbul, Turkey. The White House announced Saturday that President Barack Obama will visit a mosque in Maryland, the Baltimore Sun reports….
By: Khyla D. Craine Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wait for him to sign items after a town hall Jan. 29, 2016, in Nashua, N.H. Monday is the day….
By Darryl Pinckney Ta-Nehisi Coates, New York City, 2012 In Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again,” a poem published in 1936, a narrator speaks for those who struggle—the poor…
Above Photo: Ahmirah Porter, 9, of Flint stands outside City Hall to protest Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s handling of the water crisis. (Jake May/ MLive.com) Residents and advocacy organizations are seeking…
Above Photo: TheRealNews.com. How Organizing and Social Movements Drove Changes to Federal Policy on Solitary Confinement Alan Mills of Uptown People’s Law Center and Bernadette Rabuy of Prison Policy Initiative…
By Nicholas Lemann National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Art ResourceW.E.B. Du Bois; detail of a drawing by Winold Reiss, circa 1925 W.E.B. Du Bois’s very long life coincided almost exactly with…
By Jon Lee Anderson Before Michel Martelly was the President, he was Sweet Micky, a popular singer. Credit Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker A few months ago, a crowd…
By Amy Davidson Hillary Clinton speaks at a town-hall meeting in Iowa. CreditPhotograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty “Here’s the Senator’s ad,” Chris Cuomo, of CNN, said to Hillary Clinton, who was standing…
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II National movement: Rev. William Barber (center) speaks to media at a Moral Monday rally in Albany, New York, in 2015. (Courtesy of North Carolina NAACP)…
By Jamil Smith In the last week or so, Bernie Sanders has been questioned twice on national television about high-profile endorsements that he didn’t win. Both times, he provided strange answers….
By Christine Emba Taking it for granted that when you’re shopping alone, you probably won’t be followed or harassed. Knowing that if you ask to speak to “the person in charge,” you’ll…