
By Joan WalshTwitter Congresswoman Donna Edwards (Courtesy of the Donna Edwards for Senate campaign) Baltimore —It’s a Saturday morning in early March, and a multiracial group of Unite Here Local 7 members are playing an…
By Joan WalshTwitter Congresswoman Donna Edwards (Courtesy of the Donna Edwards for Senate campaign) Baltimore —It’s a Saturday morning in early March, and a multiracial group of Unite Here Local 7 members are playing an…
By Chuck Collins As global wealth concentrates in fewer hands, the world’s wealthy are shifting trillions to offshore havens to escape taxation, accountability, and publicity. The just-released Panama Papers—filled with titillating details…
There is not a day that dawns that I do not read, remember and meditate on the sacred wisdom and mind-expanding insights of our ancestors—whether from my mother and…
By Basil Wilson For Carib News 3/6/16 More piercing questions from television journalists have apparently slowed the Trump juggernaut. He is still the front runner who will show up at the Republican…
April 5, 2016 On April 4, we celebrated the life of Dr. Martin Luther King even as we marked the 48th anniversary of his assassination. On April 5, voters…
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson The awful transformation of Bernie Sanders has been absolutely breath stopping to see. Sanders has gone from a charming, engaging, provoking, and supremely principled Democratic presidential…
By Douglas Foster People gather on the Nelson Mandela Bridge for the “Zuma Must Fall“ protest against South African President Jacob Zuma in Johannesburg on December 16, 2015. (Rex Features via…
By: Sarah-Joyce Battersby George Talusan / George Talusan LaTanya Grant speaks to the rally. Her cousin Jermaine Carby was shot dead by Peel police in Brampton in 2014. Sleeping in shifts,…
Above photo: Original caption (1836): “Franklin & Armfield’s Slave Prison.” Franklin & Armfield was a Virginia slave trading firm. (American Anti-Slavery Society) Starting Sept. 9, prisoners in the United States will begin a…
By: Damaso Reyes Born in the 1960s the son of a white German mother and an African student, Thomas Hurst has struggled to find acceptance in his home country. He is…
By Joseph AxAbove Photo: A man shouts slogans while people take part in the Million People’s March Against Police Brutality, Racial Injustice and Economic Inequality in Newark, New Jersey July 25,…
Thursday, as part of the 200 years of the military expedition of Los Cayos, the Executive Vice President of Venezuela, Aristóbulo Istúriz Almeida, was welcomed at the Toussaint Louverture…