
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 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…
Wallposters from the group “Se Acabaron las Promesas” placed in several cities in Puerto Rico informing citizens of the protest that took place on August 31. Photo from Jornada’s Facebook…
by Ian Scoville (Hoya Staff Writer, September 9, 2016) A group of descendants of the 272 slaves sold by Georgetown University in 1838 is seeking to establish a $1 billion foundation…
By Emma Niles Above Photo: A banner over a Denver freeway supports the prison strike. (It’s Going Down / Twitter)On Sept. 9, 1971, prisoners staged a takeover of Attica State Penitentiary, New York state’s…
By Jane McAlevey Photo Credit: twbuckner / Wikimedia The following is an adapted excerpt from the new book No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey (Oxford…
Are you ready to vote? Are you registered? These may seem like simplistic questions, especially for those who are aware, but every year some folks are denied access to the polls because…