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.
Opponents of legalizing cannabis for medicinal purposes are fond of arguing that the plant must be subjected to the same standards of clinical study and FDA review as conventional medicines. What they fail to mention is that cannabis and its active components have already been subjected to a greater degree of scientific scrutiny than many FDA-approved pharmaceuticals.
Jan. 21 (GIN) – As developers rush to complete a dream city of soaring glass and steel high-rise buildings, luxury housing for 250,000
By Rush Perez
(GIN) – At a speaking engagement at Western Michigan University on Dec. 18, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
By the Caribbean Journal staff
How will Caribbean economies fare in 2014?
by Michael Kazin
A century after the artful mendacity that was Birth of a Nation and 75 years after the pro-Confederate pathos of Gone With a Wind…
by KATHY KELLY Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty,…
We meet today in the vast shadow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and that is fitting for much like his contemporary, Min. Malcolm X, he had the…
PROFESSOR SIR HILARY BECKLES LECTURE IN KINGSTOWN, ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES ON REPARATION PT2 IN DEPTH: The Caribbean’s Case for Reparations (Pt. 1) Flood in Georgetown St. Vincent…
by: Emile Schepers
The dispute about the status of descendants of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic is now the subject of negotiations hosted by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
By Charles Pierce
Is there any doubt, had there been a Dr. King in the past two decades who opposed the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as vigorously as Dr. King opposed the Vietnam catastrophe at the end of his life, that the full might of the modern American intelligence apparatus would have landed squarely on his head?
By Igor Volsky
The slain civil rights leader was a critic of capitalism, the Vietnam War, and championed reproductive rights.
By Bob Lord
As we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s 85th birthday, we’ve all come to know his dream.
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