By Alicia Garza A mourner grieves during a prayer vigil at the Morris Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, June 18, 2015. Nine people were murdered…
By Kali Holloway In so many ways, the story of Dylann Roof, the shooting suspect who allegedly killed nine people in an historic South Carolina black church, is a parallel…
Jason Miczek/Reuters By Dean Obeidallah Tragedy? Yes. Act of unspeakable evil? Check. But it’s important that we don’t flinch from calling it what it was—an act of terrorism. The Charleston…
By: Khyla D. Craine Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. In the late 1790s, Richard Allen and former enslaved people in Philadelphia were tired of praying in the…
David Goldman / AP By Yoni Appelbaum On Wednesday night, Dylan Roof, a 21-year-old white man, walked into a prayer meeting at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. For an…
Dorothy Johnson-Speight Responses to Violence and Crime Philadelphia, PA Galen Baughman Indefinite Detention Arlington, VA Maya Foa Capital Punishment London, UK Rachel Herzing Policing Oakland, CA Andrea James Incarceration’s Impact…
In Alice Walker’s short story“The Flowers,” a little girl happens upon the decomposing body of a lynching victim while she is out picking flowers. Walker contrasts the light tranquility of the…
By: Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D. Haitian sugarcane workers demonstrate to demand pensions, to which they are entitled by law, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, May 8, 2015. At the height of…
By Dennis Weiser Corporate propaganda has convinced the populace that government alone is to blame for our problems, rather than the fusion of corporate power and government decision-making. (Image: Businessmen backlit via Shutterstock)…
The Rev. Jamal Bryant and others raise their fists during a protest march around the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center, Friday, May 1, 2015, in Baltimore. State’s Attorney Marilyn…
(TriceEdneyWire.com) –– Preparing for a visit next month by President Barack Obama, officials of Siaya County in Kenya will spend 1 million shillings or just over $10,000 on the restoration,…
By: Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D. Haitian sugarcane workers demonstrate to demand pensions, to which they are entitled by law, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, May 8, 2015. At the…