By Ari Berman Voting rights activists march through downtown Winston-Salem. (Ari Berman) Winston-Salem—On the first day of the federal trial challenging North Carolina’s new voting restrictions, thousands of voting-rights activists…
Report: The new debt trap: How the response to the last global financial crisis has laid the ground for the next This report (40 pages) and its executive summary (8 pages) investigates the debts…
By: Hope Wabuke Ta-Nehisi Coates “I write you in your fifteenth year. I am writing you because this was the year you saw Eric Garner choked to death for selling…
By David Swanson – Yes, I also want to say Free Mumia. In fact, I want to say Free all the prisoners. Turn the prison holding Mumia Abu-Jamal into a…
By John Metta in The Huffington Post – I don’t talk about race with White people. To illustrate why, I’ll tell a story: It was probably about 15 years ago…
By Britney Schultz in Truthout – The plight of Indigenous children recently made headlines, as Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a damning report calling the country’s long-held policy of…
By Harry Targ in Heartland Radical – The movements of global resistance have grown enormously, particularly since the recession of 2008, as has reaction. Violent reaction from rightwing movements, in…
By Mike Whitney in Counterpunch – Let’s cut to the chase: Leaders of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) realize that global security cannot be entrusted to…
By Rev. Edward Pinkney. My name is Reverend Edward Pinkney. I am at Lakeland Correctional Facility, otherwise known as a prison, in Coldwater, Michigan. I am a victim of racial…
By Lena K. Gardner in StandingOnTheSideOfLove.org. Minneapolis, MN – Last November, I lay down with just under a hundred other people on an interstate highway in Minneapolis. Along with thousands…
By Hazel Trice Edney Denise Rolark Barnes, new NNPA chair. PHOTO: Roy Lewis/Trice Edney News Wire New NNPA Chair Denise Rolark Barnes responds to audience after the June 19…
Afro-descendant women leaders, women from diverse communities and different countries of the Americas and the Caribbean, aware of our responsibility as committed women, fighters and promoters of rights of women…