
Sharpton Eulogizes George Curry: ‘I Have Fought a Good Fight, I Have Finished My Course, I Have Kept the Faith!’ Admonishes Black Press: ‘Keep Telling the Story!’ By Hazel Trice…
Sharpton Eulogizes George Curry: ‘I Have Fought a Good Fight, I Have Finished My Course, I Have Kept the Faith!’ Admonishes Black Press: ‘Keep Telling the Story!’ By Hazel Trice…
Colin Kaepernick. (photo: Peter Joneleit/Cal Sport Media/AP Images) By Jon Schwarz, The Intercept Before a preseason game on Friday, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the playing of…
The month of August is a special month rich with history and initiatives of revolt, resistance and righteous struggle. It is the month of the beginning of the Haitian Revolution…
By Gabrielle Bozarth and Naomi Kellogg A Georgia Department of Labor services specialist helps a woman with a job search at an unemployment office in Atlanta on March 3, 2016….
By Eisa Nefertari Ulen The movement to normalize breastfeeding in this country has generated positive results, but a racial gap in breastfeeding rates persists. According to the Centers for Disease Control and…
By Goldie Taylor They did not teach us about Nat Turner at the nearly all-white public schools I attended. Nor at the nearly all-black ones I went to. While our…
By: Peniel E. Joseph A man talks to police in riot gear as they wait in an alley after a second night of clashes between protesters and police Aug. 15, 2016,…
August 23, 2016 Donald Trump made a pitch for black votes this week, in his own inimitable fashion. Speaking in a virtually all-white suburb of Detroit, he suggested that African-American…
By Adele M. Stan / AlterNet Photo Credit: screen shot / Fox NewsChannel Time was when one could sum up the connections of Donald J. Trump, Republican Party standard-bearer and King of…
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference took on a new challenge: expose and overcome racial discrimination in Chicago. Here, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter…
By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire) – Renowned civil rights and Black political journalist George E. Curry, the dean of Black press columnists because of his riveting weekly commentary…
By Manisha Sinha Universal Images Group / Getty Images Pierre Dominique Toussaint l’Ouverture (1746-1803) Haitian revolutionary leader. Etching by John Kay, 1802. The nation was a beacon for the anti-slavery cause…