The US government does not currently keep a comprehensive record of people killed by police. Instead the FBI runs a voluntary program for law enforcement agencies to submit numbers of…
By Robert Borosage Greece is now on the brink. It cannot pay its creditors, starting with the missed payment to the International Monetary Fund. Its banks are closed, unable to…

(Left to right) Aiyegro Ome, chair of the TTNCR; Rodger Samuel, Minister of National Diversity & Social Integration; Winston Dookeran, Foreign Minister; Prof. Hilary Beckles. The University of the West…
By Jose Adan Silva The June 26 opening of the first Summit of Women Leaders of African Descent of the Americas Américas, when ended two days later in Managua with…
By Suzy Khimm When President Obama broke out into “Amazing Grace,” to the astonishment of millions who were watching and would watch his speech on Friday, it was a moment…
Bill Morlin June 26, 2015 Southern Poverty Law Center In what may not be a coincidence, a string of nighttime fires have damaged or destroyed at least six predominately black…
Harold Covington, a right-wing science fiction writer, is the founder of the white separatist group, the Northwest Front, which Dylann Roof mentions in his alleged manifesto. Photograph: YouTube By Sam…

By Maya Schenwar Victoria Law. (Photo: PM Press)In Resistance Behind Bars, regular Truthout contributor Victoria Law provides much-needed documentation of collective organizing and the daily struggles inside women’s prisons. This second edition…
By A Mechele Dickerson The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a report this month that reveals stark disparities in the amount of wealth American households recovered after the 2007-2009 recession, with white-owned…
by ANDRE VLTCHEK Do not take the Latin American revolutions for granted. They inspired the entire Planet. They brought hope to every corner of our scarred Earth. But now they…
By: Peniel E. Joseph U.S. President Barack Obama sings ‘Amazing Grace’ while delivering the eulogy for South Carolina state senator and Rev. Clementa Pinckney during Pinckney’s funeral service June 26,…

Mark Peterson/Corbis Days after the massacre at a black church in South Carolina, some Americans woke to a vile surprise: KKK fliers with candy on their lawns. The propaganda—stuffed into plastic…