It is now widely accepted and shown by scholars that the permanent dislocation and forced transportation of over 30 million enslaved Africans to the Caribbean and the wider Americas, and…

By Bert Wilkinson At the just concluded meeting of Caribbean Community leaders in Grenada, the question of making European nations that had participated in the transatlantic slave trade compensate the…

Paul Butler talks about breaking the “chokehold” on African American men By Sam Fullwood III Early on, in his recently published book, Chokehold [Policing Black Men], Paul Butler states, “[c]ops…

As debate raged around health care and Russia-gate last month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions quietly held a “national summit” of law enforcement representatives to discuss the future of policing. Vice…

By Stephen A. Crockett Jr. – In her first major piece of legislation since taking office, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), along with everyone’s favorite Republican, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), has…

by Ricardo Vaz Sunday, July 16, was a significant day in Venezuela’s political history. The right-wing opposition MUD, backed by the United States, threw all its weight behind a “consultation”…

By Al Calloway Typically, too many African American political leaders, preachers and so-called intellectuals shy away from the issue of Reparations. As a result, the black body politic has not…

A voter listens to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speak in South Carolina a day after her debate with rival candidate Bernie Sanders on Feb. 12, 2016, in Denmark, S.C….

Gwendolyn Brooks’s life and work asserted the humanity of black people in America. By Lovia Gyarkye The opening lines of Gwendolyn Brooks’s epic “The Anniad” are, like the rest of…

Ava DuVernay arrives on set ready to work. It’s summer in New Orleans and the heat is sticky. Even the room-temperature bottles of water are sweating. But DuVernay seems impervious….

Above Photo: Danny Glover (center) joins Nissan workers for the March on Mississippi, March 4, 2017 (Ariel Cobbert / Daily Mississippian) The workers at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi,…

A proposed resolution advocates for overturning the 17th Amendment so Republican-controlled state legislatures could pick senators. By John Nichols The United States Senate is an undemocratic institution. Just do the…