
By: Nsenga K. Burton Ph.D Scene from The Birth of a Nation Scene from The Birth of a Nation Elliot Davis When Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation won…
By: Nsenga K. Burton Ph.D Scene from The Birth of a Nation Scene from The Birth of a Nation Elliot Davis When Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation won…
BY JESSE JACKSON Sexual boasting, emails, tax returns, deplorables — the second presidential debate Sunday featured insults wrapped up in put-downs. This debate was held within miles of Ferguson, Mo., but it…
For Carib News 10/12/16 Barack Obama is demitting office with high approval ratings. He came into office at a time when the economy was in the throes of the Great Recession. …
By Nathalie Baptiste / AlterNet Body cameras were going to be black America’s saving grace. Technology was going to bring to light the horrors of police violence in communities of color, while…
By Renee Feltz The report from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration calls on lawmakers to address the disparate rates of detention and deportation for black immigrants., Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images , It…
House Majority Leader Paul Ryan (R-WI) is anticipating a Trump win in November. Or, at least, he is preparing for it. He says that if Republicans hold sway in the…
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson — GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump turns Will Rogers famed maxim that he never met a man he didn’t like on its head every time when…
Whatever else, the continued and recent rash of police killings of our people tell us about the police and the society that shelters and supports them and refuses to restrain…
By Karin Kamp Alicia Garza, who cofounded Black Lives Matter along with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, speaks after being presented with a public service award at Harvard Memorial Church in…
By Janelle Odionou Prof. William Darity, public policy, Duke University, and Kirsten Mullen, a folklorist and art consultant, addressed racial discrimination and its profound effect on economic inequality in the United…
By Jeff Guo The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in the District. The civil rights leader also had a dream that one day there would be economic opportunity and economic justice…
BY JESSE JACKSON October 4, 2016 Blessed are those who plant seeds in the faith that others might enjoy the forest. This Saturday is my 75th birthday. I have been blessed to…