By Robert Jensen / AlterNet One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National…
BY DOSHON FARAD NEWARK, NJ-For those of us who may not be old enough to remember the Pan Africanist conferences organized in the 1940s by W.E.B. Dubois and Booker…
by Patrick Bond Donald Trump is mostly bad news for Africa, including reduced U.S. aid and possibly more support for “imperial African adventurism” – unless, of course, Africa uses…
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Barack Obama on this night of his first election in Chicago. Donald Trump’s victory was a reaction to the first African-American president, Rev….
November 22, 2016 President-elect Donald Trump protests that he isn’t really the racist, sexist, anti-immigrant Islamaphobe that his rhetorical excesses in the presidential campaign suggested he was. Then he appoints…
For Carib News 11/21/16 When Barack Obama was first elected in 2008 to the Presidency of the United States, there was much talk that the country had entered into a post-racial period….
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet When Richard Spencer, a leading alt-right white power ideologue finished his speech at Saturday’s day-long “Become Who We Are” summit at Washington’s Ronald Reagan…
For Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, abolishing Obamacare is not enough to satisfy his radical right-wing cravings. He’s also getting ready to aim his wrecking ball…
By Brendan Gauthier / Salon Richard Spencer The anime Nazis — who fancy themselves “alt-righters” and scare pundits who take their meme threats seriously — have landed in Washington….
By: Todd Steven Burroughs Ron Daniels, Institute of the Black World; economist Julianne Malveaux; entrepreneur George Fraser; E. Faye Williams of the National Congress of Black Women; and New Jersey…
The apprehension that I felt upon Donald Trump’s victory in the Presidential election has only increased as he has announced the appointments of his chief of staff, strategist, and cabinet…