By: Theresa Thompson While speaking at the NAACP national convention earlier this month, President Barack Obama endorsed “banning the box” on job applications so that formerly incarcerated people, like…
By Mark Winston Griffith His nickname was Mike-Mike and his favorite color was blue. The morning workshop portion on the first day of the gathering was over, and the afternoon…
By Alma Carten Am I not a man emblem used during the campaign to abolish slavery. The image is from a book from 1788, so there can be no effective…
July 25, 2015 BernieSanders.com Thank you for inviting me to be with you tonight. Thank you for the work you continue to do as leaders in civil rights. You…
By Deirdre Fulton Documents released to The Intercept by the Department of Homeland Security show that the federal agency monitored National Moment of Silence protests like the one pictured above, in…
By Sonali Kolhatkar Activist Jasmine Richards talks about Black Lives Matter with Sonali Kolhatkar in Pasadena. (Photo: ‘Uprising’ Radio via YouTube) On July 24, The Movement for Black Lives National…
By Alan Aja, Daniel Bustillo, William Darity, Jr., and Darrick Hamilton Community and Occupy activists protest foreclosures, Brooklyn, December 2011 (Joe Lustri/Flickr) When President Lyndon Johnson gave his June 4,…
By Jamil Smith These days you’re not organizing for direct action and protests—particularly for black liberation—if you’re not doing it online. Which is why I wasn’t at all surprised to…
By Hisham Aidi So far this year, 14 Afro-Colombian youths have been killed in the Colombian capital, writes Aidi [EPA] On April 9, two Afro-Colombian men, both 20 years old…
By Hisham Aidi Peruvians hold up their cajones, a traditional musical instrument, in celebration. On the night of June 4, the Plaza Mayor of Lima was lit up with lights…
By: Tonyaa Weathersbee Two weeks before President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. and Cuba would reopen embassies that had been shuttered for more than 50 years, I was embarking on…
By Jamil Smith This year, as with every other year, nearly every presidential candidate is white, with the only exceptions being long shots in the mushrooming Republican field. Most candidates…