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As we gather to remember and mark the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles Revolt and to discuss the course of history after it, it is important to place…
As we gather to remember and mark the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles Revolt and to discuss the course of history after it, it is important to place…
By Caribbean News Now contributor ST GEORGE’S, Grenada — An attorney who wrote a widely circulated article opposing the staging of an event reenacting slave life on a Grenada sugar…
Press Release/Press Availability PDF available here The Institute of the Black World 21ST Century (IBW) will convene a National Town Hall Meeting to evaluate the impact on Black America of…
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson – #45 Trump got one thing right about the media hyped first 100 days measuring stick of a new president. It’s a silly measure. In fact, presidents from John F. Kennedy to Obama have derided the 100-day fetish and correctly noted that the far better to gauge how effective or bumbling an incoming president is is the first 1000 days. A quick look at the presidency of…
The Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe, in his novel, Things Fall Apart, elucidated how modernization had a profound impact on traditional African society. The rollback of European empires has also had a traumatic impact on European society. Europe in the post-World War 11 period has shed the age-old tradition of imperialistic warfare. These countries had the wisdom to come together to build the European Union and NATO that have been instrumental in preserving the peace and creating conditions for prosperity.
Former Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly, the man whose lofty ratings were responsible for the growth of the network, is no longer on the air. Revelations that $13 million had…
It has been rightfully remembered and necessarily noted that this month marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s classic anti-war speech, April 4, 1967, a year to the…
By Anis Shivani – The term gets thrown around carelessly, but the history of this ideology is long and tangled. We must secure the existence of our people and the future of White children. — David Lane’s 14-word creed. Hardly any concept is thrown around as carelessly these days as “white supremacy.” It has become the go-to term of condemnation, applied as loosely as “fascism,” with similar ramifications in terms of lack of clarity. Are all white supremacists separatists, and are all separatists supremacists? Is anti-Semitism (and, more recently, Islamophobia) always a part of white supremacy?
Robert Vitalis tells a great story about how he came to write his book White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations. Some years ago, sitting in the Clark University library avoiding grading his students’ final exams…
Has Black Lives Matter Sold Out to Capitalism?, New York City and State Legislative Policy Update – Vantage Point Radio Show hosted by Dr. Ron Daniels with guests Dr. Melina Abdullah…
By Heather Digby Parton, Salon – New data suggests Trump voters have highly negative views of African Americans. But that’s not the whole story.
Video from the Town Hall Meeting held on April 28, 2017 at the Historic Metropolitan AME Church, Washington, D.C. to evaluate the impact on Black America of the Cabinet appointments,…