By Earl Ofari Hutchinson The attacks by Trump, Trump’s Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus, and some GOP leaders on Georgia Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis for flatly calling…
By Melvin P. Foote The Congressional Black Caucus and 18 others from Congress, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Ndaba Mandela, and additional prominent people and organizations have written letters…
January 17, 2017 How should Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday be celebrated? It should be celebrated in many different ways. Dr. King was an intellectual who reflected seriously and…
For Carib News 1/18/17 We are approaching a strange week in American history. In the same week that the nation celebrated the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the latter part…
By Juliet Linderman and Eric Tucker In Baltimore’s Sandtown-WInchester, every day is an ongoing Katrina BALTIMORE (AP) — The scathing findings of a federal investigation into Baltimore police practices after…
By Jared Bernstein The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gestures during a speech at a Chicago Freedom Movement rally at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 10, 1966. (Afro…
by Westenley Alcenat For a brief moment recently, Haiti dominated the news cycle. As always, this American media attention only came in a moment of crisis. According to the Washington…
By Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet After a 13-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice released a 164-page report Friday detailing the abuse of force by the Chicago Police Department (CPD)….
By Roger Smith The Washington Spectator My hope is that this presentation of the underlying views of a majority of Americans will enable readers to oppose the false prophets of…
When Dr. Martin Luther King envisioned the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968, he envisioned all kinds of people descending on our nation’s capital, bringing demands to federal agencies. He envisioned…
By Richard Eskow “I’m also very much of a germaphobe, by the way, believe me.” Try not to think too much about the story that led to this comment from…
By Herb Boyd — There is the imminent convergence of two very interesting dates: On Jan. 15th the nation celebrates the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and…














