The 2016 Presidential primaries have certainly made more voters pay attention to what is at stake in the Presidential election of 2016. The cutting edge issues are quite variegated…

There is no easy way or walk to freedom; no shortcuts to justice; no quick fix for conceiving and constructing the good and sustainable society and world we all want…

Published on April 18, 2016 By Ray Chickrie (Caribbean News Now) ISTANBUL, Turkey — The 13th Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit, which ended on Friday in Istanbul, Turkey, in its communiqué…

By Jelani Cobb Alicia Garza, a labor organizer in Oakland, espouses a type of ecumenical activism. Credit Photograph by Amy Elkins for The New Yorker On February 18th, as part of the official…

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a New Deal-style liberal, at a campaign event on Sunday at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. (photo: Max Whittaker/NYT) By Bill Simpich Building a…

Sanders in Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) By Azi Paybarah At an appearance Saturday in Brooklyn, Senator Bernie Sanders said, “We owe a debt of gratitude to the Black Lives Matter movement.” He said…

Prof. Pedro Welch, chairman of the Barbados Reparations Task Force, with the Reparations Relay Baton. Barbados, April 16th…..The CARICOM Reparations Commission (CRC) has launched an International Reparations Relay & Rally…

By Michelle Alexander It is often said that if we do not learn from our history we are doomed to repeat it. I applaud Rep. Rush’s apology for supporting…

by David Love Although he began the presidential election season as a source of entertainment and the fodder for political humor, Donald Trump has emerged as the front-runner in the Republican…

Only half of young Americans between ages 18 and 35 want the U.S. government to formally apologize for slavery, and nearly two-thirds think America should not redress the horrors of…

By: Leah Wright Rigueur Jackie Robinson and his son David (then age 11) are interviewed during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. On a Saturday evening in February of 1966, over a…

April 12, 2016 This country has made remarkable progress on civil rights over our history. We’ve moved from slavery to segregation to equal rights under the law. African-Americans have…