
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…
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…
By Jesse Hagopian, Truthout Tonya Ray, center, a math teacher at the Academy of Public Leadership, talking with students in Detroit, May 11, 2016. (Joshua Lott / The New York Times) The…
The last time I saw James Baldwin was at a memorial colloquium on Hoyt Fuller at Cornell University in 1984 at which we were both presenting. He was talking, as…
By David Edwards Photo Credit: CNN Former CNN host Soledad O’Brien blasted the cable news business over the weekend for profiting off the hate speech that has fueled Donald Trump’s…
By Alan Levinovitz A clerk holds US 100-dollar notes at a money changer shop in Jakarta on August 22, 2013. In his new book, The Market As God, theologian Harvey Cox…