ATLANTA (AP) — The King Center in Atlanta is set to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday Monday at Ebenezer Baptist Church. The commemorative service caps more…
By Cherri Senders / AlterNet Last speech of MLK By the time of his death at the hands of an assassin’s bullet in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had shifted much…
By Tennyson S.D. Joseph For three days in the New Year (Wednesday 13th to Friday 15th), the Cave Hill Campus of the University of West Indies hosted over eighty participants…
PRIME MINISTER of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves is urging young people not to waiver in their fight for reparations. Gonsalves spoke at the Inaugural Pan African Colloquium…
By: Todd Steven Burroughs Tuesday night looked so good, I almost didn’t pay attention to what President Barack Obama was saying. I did notice that he morphed back into his 2004…
A man who did not wish to be identified, who lost his job two months ago after being hurt on the job, works to collect money for his family on…
By: Charles D. Ellison President Barack Obama waves before giving last year’s State of the Union in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 20, 2015, in Washington, D.C. …
By Ari Berman James Harris walks into his polling place to vote in Ferguson, Missouri, in April 2015. (AP Photo / Jeff Roberson) At the time of Mike Brown’s shooting in Ferguson, Missouri,…
By Stephen Marche You feel your whiteness properly at the American border. Most of the time being white is an absence of problems. The police don’t bother you so you…
Logged In: How the New Economy Makes It Harder Than Ever to Untangle Capitalism From Our Daily Lives
It’s a familiar pattern. First there’s an economic crisis. Then comes an enormous restructuring of capital — and with it a restructuring of labor — throwing past certainties into doubt….
By: Panama Jackson 490040062-president-barack-obama-and-chinese-president-xi-jinping President Barack Obama toasts during a state dinner in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 25, 2015. While perusing Facebook a…
In response, the NAACP said they are planning to file a motion with the judge. An Ohio prosecutor has rebuffed a request by the Cleveland branch of the NAACP…