
By: Stephen A. Crockett Jr. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers during a game Jan. 19, 2014, in Seattle Ronald Martinez/Getty Images On Friday, Colin Kaepernick took a stand…
By: Stephen A. Crockett Jr. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers during a game Jan. 19, 2014, in Seattle Ronald Martinez/Getty Images On Friday, Colin Kaepernick took a stand…
By Herb Boyd In one way Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49’ers quarterback, brought to mind the courageous act of Rosa Parks, who chose to sit rather than move…
By Jared Keller, www.psmag.com At this very moment, nearly 450,000 Americans are sitting in county jails not because they’ve been charged with a crime, but because they simply don’t have enough…
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…