By Daniel Marans The Federal Reserve’s decision to raise its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday is bad news for black workers. The move is expected to put downward pressure on job…
Serena Williams’s otherworldly year was capped this week with her being named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year for 2015. And, while many sports aficionados applauded the accolade, and the striking image…
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson The third Democratic presidential candidate’s debate got a distant second ranking in headline news to the very public warfare between Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders and the…
By Mark Karlin Just as social-ism is about the needs of society, capital-ism is about the needs of capital. (Image: Hands together via Shutterstock) The following is an interview with Danny Katch, author…
By Hazel Trice Edney USBC CEO Ron Busby Sr. (center left, red tie), with Industrial Bank CEO Doyle Mitchell along with members of the Black Male Entrepreneurship Institute. PHOTO: Ashlei Sutton…
By Mike King shutterstock_321867671 As the media and state response to the recent attacks in San Bernardino have illustrated, premeditated political violence in the U.S. today only gets labelled…
By Joan Walsh Supporters at a campaign rally for Donald Trump on December 5, 2015, in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo / Charlie Neibergall) The image of the United States as a broadly prosperous middle-class…
The latest poll on the GOP presidential candidate’s derby now has Texas Senator Ted Cruz steaming past prior front-runner Donald Trump in the crucial first out the box Iowa primary…
By: Danielle C. Belton Barack Obama is going to be in the history books. This will happen regardless of his critics or his fans, both of which are legion. It…
By: Charles D. Ellison So, there’s nothing new about a spoiled rich white dude saying crazy things so he can get a bump in a poll. On real, tell us…
By Dr Tennyson Joseph This is the 2nd occasion in about three years on which I have been invited to serve on a Panel organised by the Cuban Embassy to…
By Julia Craven The Washington Post via Getty Images BALTIMORE — “Stunning” was the only word Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) could find to describe one of Charm City’s most poverty-stricken…