By Heather Digby Parton / Salon Donald Trump greets eager supporter Robin Roy at a campaign rally in Lowell, Massachusetts. Photograph: Brian Snyder Photo Credit: Reuters The big showdown in South Carolina…
February 23, 2016. In the presidential campaign, we’ve seen libels on immigrants, fear mongering about Syrian refugees, arguments over Medicare for All and Obamacare, concerns about big money corrupting…
The morality of remembrance is deeply and indelibly rooted in the culture and consciousness of African people. Indeed, it is expressed repeatedly in our ancient sacred texts and in…
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. I met Bernie Sanders in the late 1980s when he was a visiting fellow at Harvard University still contemplating his political future. We had…
By Maya Rhodan For over an hour on Thursday, 31-year-old activist and educator Brittany Packnett sat beside President Obama at a table in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for…
By Aislinn Pulley, Truthout President Obama in Washington, DC, on September 18, 2014. The Obama administration invited civil rights activists and leaders from around the country to the White House to…
Protesters march in support of Black Lives Matter, January 1, 2014. (Joe Brusky / Flickr) Leaders from the Black Lives Matter and reproductive justice movements recently announced a formal organizational…
By Mychal Denzel Smith Demonstrators protest the death of Eric Garner on August 23, 2014, in Staten Island. (AP Photo / John Minchillo) Most of the work of movement building takes place…
By Jeffrey Blount (From February 14th Washington Post) Today is President’s Day. Through ceremony and remembrance, we celebrate our commanders in chief with a particular emphasis on the first, George Washington. Most…
By Tim Murphy Civil rights icon John Lewis told reporters that he never encountered Bernie Sanders when the Vermont senator was working with Lewis’ Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. Because…
By Jeff Cohen — Corporate mainstream media have sanitized and distorted the life and teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., putting him in the category of a “civil rights leader” who focused…
All roads in the Pan African world lead to Newark November 16-20 for what has the potential to be one of the most historic great gatherings of people of African…