
By Ari BermanTwitter Voters wait in line outside the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland during early voting in November 2012. (AP Photo / Mark Duncan) The Supreme Court today declined…
By Ari BermanTwitter Voters wait in line outside the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland during early voting in November 2012. (AP Photo / Mark Duncan) The Supreme Court today declined…
By Jake Johnson ‘Whether she is writing of Kashmir or of the Palestinians, of American foreign policy or of terror in the Middle East, of environmental degradation or of…
By Shawn Fremstad In 1963, the poverty line for a family of four was 50% below median family income—or one-half of the income of the typical four-person family in America….
By Jessica Faieta Caribbean countries make a special case for development. The high and increasing exposure to hazards, combined with very open and trade-dependent economies with limited diversification and competitiveness…
September 13, 2016 Are black voters so loyal to Democrats that their issues are ignored? Donald Trump suggests as much, arguing that blacks had “nothing to lose” by voting for…
By Frank Joyce / AlterNet Slaves during slavery in the South. Photograph display on Gullah culture at Boone Hall Plantation. Photo Credit: Flickr, denisbin Slavery as practiced in what is now the…
By Natalia Khosla, Sean McElwee / Salon House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (C) talks to reporters after meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder in the US Captiol June 19. Barack…
For Carib News 9/15/16 Secretary of State, John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, have chiseled out a tentative ceasefire that began Monday, September 12 and if the ceasefire holds, more…
Above Photo:EPI analysis of Current Population Survey microdata. The White House is making one last push for passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. However, growing imports of goods from low-wage, less-developed…
From left, Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman Rep. Barbara Lee, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack walk out after their meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington…
By Jeffrey Darko Before the advent of modern day political civilization the idea was clear and simple not concealed as it is today. Africans understood what it meant.What?Liberation!It was all about…
By Vijay Prashad What is happening in America? The city of Milwaukee in the State of Wisconsin was convulsed in violence after the fatal shooting of a black man by police…