
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) – Scholars, activists and cultural representatives from Latino grassroots organizations gathered here for the three-day…
IBW21 (The Institute of the Black World 21st Century) is committed to enhancing the capacity of Black communities in the U.S. and globally to achieve cultural, social, economic and political equality and an enhanced quality of life for all marginalized people.
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) – Scholars, activists and cultural representatives from Latino grassroots organizations gathered here for the three-day…
A report released last week holds troubling findings about lasting inequality across the African-American community.
A permanent memorial to honour the victims of one of the most horrific tragedies of modern history will be revealed at United Nations Headquarters in New York…
Ben Carson—neurosurgeon, Tea Party superstar and potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate—is well-known for his controversial comments, whether he’s comparing the Affordable Care Act to slavery or claiming that prison makes people gay.
They behead people by the hundreds. They heap headless, handless bodies along roadsides as warnings to those who would resist their power.
Toward the front of the headquarters of the National Action Network in Harlem there is a chair—no a throne—that was placed there for the venerable Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan. Every Saturday for more than a decade Dr. Ben, as he was affectionately and internationally known, would arrive there and take his place as part of the audience, primarily to hear the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Our current political situation is unprecedented. The vast majority of Americans keep falling behind economically because of changes in society’s ground rules…
When 28-year-old George Zimmerman killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a residential Sanford, Florida, street in February 2012, after trailing the hoodie-clad…
Banging your head against the wall when voter turnout is too low?
Banging your head against the wall when voter turnout is too low?
Yosef ben-Jochannan, one of the last of the Harlem activist-intellectuals of the 20th century—those fiery, independent scholars who taught classical African history and shaped it into a sword against white supremacy—died Thursday after a long illness. He was 96.
The progressive community in the U.S. and beyond is mourning the loss and celebrating the life of friend and colleague Danny Schechter on Friday…