
By Isaiah J. Poole Young technician checking solar panels on factory roof Photo Credit: zstock/Shutterstock Since 2011, Maine’s bombastic Republican governor Paul LePage has given America a taste of what…
By Isaiah J. Poole Young technician checking solar panels on factory roof Photo Credit: zstock/Shutterstock Since 2011, Maine’s bombastic Republican governor Paul LePage has given America a taste of what…
There is no written or reliable record on the day of her birth, but we do know the date of her transition, November 26, 1883; and we know too…
I’m writing two weeks before the November 8 election, writing and praying that Election Day comes sooner than it is supposed to. I did my early vote thing so that…
By: Michael Harriot In the next few days, your news feeds and social media timelines will be peppered with reports of white people reveling at Halloween parties posing for pictures…
By: Allison Keyes Election official Cassandra Lewis waits to welcome voters at an early-voting poll station in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 25, 2016. Election official Cassandra Lewis waits to…
A woman holds up a sign reading Black Lives Matter in the street in Ferguson, Missouri, on the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death. Photograph: Jim Vondruska/Xinhua Press/Corbis Above Photo:…
For Carib News 10/26/16 Another fortnight and the American people will choose who will be the 45th President of the United States. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have addressed the issue…
By: Taylor Campbell A man wears a shirt bearing names of black people shot by police in the form of the words “Black Lives Matter” at the site where an unarmed…
By: Corey Richardson President Barack Obama SAUL There’s a huge difference between having a president who’s black and having a Black President. With Barack Obama, we thought we hit the jackpot…
By: Tarana Burke #BlackLivesMatter co-founders Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors appear onstage during a breakfast honoring them by the New York Women’s Foundation on May 14, 2015, in New…
This is the month of remembering and raising up Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977), honored giant in a generation of great leaders. Let us, then, raise and praise…