
Land passed down from a freed slave should not be seized to further enrich a giant corporation. By RJ Eskow, AlterNet This is a story about property: real and imagined,…
Land passed down from a freed slave should not be seized to further enrich a giant corporation. By RJ Eskow, AlterNet This is a story about property: real and imagined,…
By Justin Gomer and Christopher Petrella On July 3, The Boston Globe published a controversial, if predictable, op-ed entitled “In Defense of White Males.” The piece, written by novelist Roland Merullo, is rife with the…
By Ted Vincent – berkeleydailyplanet.com Barak Obama admires Abraham Lincoln. Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s first black president, was his nation’s Lincoln. In 1829 he issued Mexico’s slavery abolition decree (which led…
Earlier this year, activists launched a campaign called Freedom Cities to protect and uplift all people of color. (And, no, it doesn’t include more police.) By Zenobia Jeffries, Yes! Magazine…
Watch This Video: Black Teacher Crisis A new study published by the Institute of Labor Economics finds that black children assigned a black teacher during elementary school performed better on…
Raoul Peck’s documentary on James Baldwin (pictured), I Am Not Your Negro, is deeply moving because it is, in essence, a sermon. By Nicholas Powers, Truthout.org Film Review The genius…
This July 14, 2017 photo shows a memorial by Woodrow Nash for the German Coast Uprising at the Whitney Plantation in Edgard, La. After the uprising, slaves who participated were…
Monday, July 31st, 2017 Special Pledge Drive Edition of Vantage Point. Premium: Africa’s Great Civilizations. Dedicated to the Memory of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Special Guests: Dr. Julius Garvey,…
By Travis Gettys White supremacists have been promoting the myth that the first slaves brought to the Americas were Irish, not African — but a historian says there’s simply no…
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July 31st is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day By Valerie Wilson, Janelle Jones, Kayla Blado and Elise Gould / Economic Policy Institute July 31st is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day,…
Joana Gorjão Henriques has been a journalist at the leading national daily in Portugal, Público, since 2000; a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 2010; and a contributor to The Guardian….