Bill speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic, about his cover story on why America needs to reconcile with its racist past.
By Terrell Jermaine Starr Officially, Kalief Browder died as a result of suicide at his family’s home in the Bronx this weekend. Yet it’s not a stretch to say the…
By Elias Isquith In recent years, there’s been a small genre of left-of-center journalism that, following President Obama’s lead, endeavors to prove that things on Planet Earth are not just going…
By Austin C. McCoy In an undated handout photo, bullet holes are seen in a Chevy Malibu involved in a chase in Cleveland on November 29, 2012. Officer Michael Brelo,…
By: Peniel E. Joseph McKinney, Texas, Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt throws a 14-year-old girl down on the ground during an incident at a pool party June 5, 2015. As of…
By David Commissiong The campaign to achieve the “payment” of Reparations to the nations and people of the Pan-African World for the atrocities committed against their ancestors and the…
Marie Arago, special to ProPublica by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan The neighborhood of Campeche sprawls up a steep hillside in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Goats rustle in trash…
By Nick Turse The following excerpt is taken from the afterward of Nick Turse’s new book, Tomorrow’s Battlefield: US Proxy Wars & Secret Ops in Africa [3] (Haymarket, 2015) JUBA,…
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. In a lecture at Harvard during my freshman year, a professor—who may have been Martin Peretz—offered an insight that left a profound impact upon me. “Citizen,”…
By Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland and Jamiles Lartey in New York Black Americans are more than twice as likely to be unarmed when killed during encounters with police as white…
By Matt Ford After Ferguson, a noticeable gap in criminal-justice statistics emerged: the use of lethal force by the police. The federal government compiles a wealth of data…