by Roxana Saberi TOKYO — Ariana Miyamoto was born and raised in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. But she said most people in her homeland see her as a foreigner….
Tens of thousands of people in the United States and abroad have signed petitions calling on President Barack Obama to accept more Syrian refugees, as European governments continue to grapple…
By Aaron, Estela Vazquez and Lenore Friedlaender Image Source: Photo from the People’s Climate March in NYC on Sept. 21, 2014. This Labor Day, we are joining together to celebrate…
By Michael Eric Dyson Twenty years ago, less than two years after I’d received my doctorate in religion from Princeton, I appeared with Cornel West, Derrick Bell, and bell hooks…
By Nathan Schneider (Doug Chayka) A few weeks before the release this summer of Laudato si’, Pope Francis’s manifesto on ecology and poverty, I…
By David Olusoga / The Guardian There is a view that discussions about modern Africa should be forward-looking. They should be about trade, entrepreneurship, expanding markets, Chinese investment and the…
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD of the New York Times Credit Alex Nabaum The Republican Party and its acolytes in the news media are trying to demonize the protest movement that…
By: Todd Steven Burroughs A woman wears a shirt with ‘Black Lives Matter’ during a memorial service for slain 18 year-old Michael Brown Jr. on August 9, 2015 at the…
Here are a few ways to pay the bill. By Jamelle Bouie A high school in Clinton, Tennessee, in December 1956. Reparations wouldn’t just be about America’s slaveholding era. With…
By Julia Craven & Nick Wing A protester advocates against police brutality in St. Louis. Sheriff Ron Hickman of Harris County, Texas, isn’t quite sure why suspect Shannon J. Miles…

By Sen. Hank Sanders (D-Selma) A giant named Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson passed Tuesday night, August 25, 2015. She was 110 years old. I saw her driver’s license when I…
For too long, we have looked in the wrong place and race for the genesis of our national story. By David Levering Lewis Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, educator, writer and…