
By Matthew Delmont, The Conversation | News Analysis — In July 1943, one month after a race riot shook Detroit, Vice President Henry Wallace spoke to a crowd of union workers and…
By Matthew Delmont, The Conversation | News Analysis — In July 1943, one month after a race riot shook Detroit, Vice President Henry Wallace spoke to a crowd of union workers and…
Examining Lorraine Hansberry’s Impact on an American Genius By Malik Gaines, Literary Hub — Nina Simone credited her friends of the black intelligentsia for facilitating her political education in the…
By Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer — A *few weeks ago, we convened and moderated a “justice and equity” reading group for students, staff, and faculty at a local college. Our…
By Jesse Jackson — Colin Kaepernick, the former quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, is being blackballed — itself a revealing phrase — from the National Football League with the…
By Mike Ludwig — He has come for Mexicans, Muslims, Black people, trans people, Democrats, the news media, activists and even leading members of Congress from his own party. Few have been…
American Shame: Colin Kaepernick is jobless for thought crime By William Boardman — To watch America’s structural racism at work, one need look no further than the National Football League…
Stranded communities are “literally getting gassed by these chemicals.” By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! — Concern continues to grow over the environmental impact of Hurricane Harvey on the Houston area,…
Dismantling of the murderous myth that is “White People” will break down the backbone of the racist ideology. By Hamid Dabashi — There are no white people. There are no…
Topics: Treatment of Black Africans in Libya Revisited, The Rally in Support of Family of Muhammad Bah, The Future of Progressives and the Democrats After Trump and Charlottesville. Guests: Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood, New York, NY, Bill Fletcher, Labor and Social Justice Activist, Washington, D.C., Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Editor/Publisher, the Hutchinson Report, Los Angeles.CA.
On Wednesday August 23rd, people gathered at the offices of the National Football League [NFL| in Manhattan NYC. By some accounts 3-4 thousand people attended. The rally was in support of quarterback, Colin Kaepernick who refused to stand for the Star Spangled Banner prior to the beginning of the football game but instead choose to kneel rather than pay homage to the flag that represents the racism which is so prevalent against the Black population in the United States, especially in the murder of Black people by police, a crime that goes unpunished. As a result of his doing…
By: Andrew King — After listening to President Donald Trump’s June speech on Cuba, in which he reversed all the steps that the Obama administration had made to improve relations, one might…
Now that the violence in Charlottesville has forced “white supremacy” into our political vocabulary, let’s ask an uncomfortable question: “When will the United States transcend white supremacy?”
My question isn’t, “What should we do about the overt white supremacists who, emboldened by Trumpism’s success, have pushed their way back into mainstream politics?” I want to go beyond easy targets to ask, “When will U.S. society…