By Jaskiran Dhillon, Truthout Rezpect Our Water campaign youth leaders (left to right) Tokata Iron Eyes, AnnaLee Yellow Hammer, Precious Winter Roze Bernie and Winona Gayton stand in defense of land and water. (Photo:…
By Jaskiran Dhillon, Truthout Rezpect Our Water campaign youth leaders (left to right) Tokata Iron Eyes, AnnaLee Yellow Hammer, Precious Winter Roze Bernie and Winona Gayton stand in defense of land and water. (Photo:…
By Noble Jay Ali Now that Microsoft has determined jumping into a nascent industry still fighting for legitimacy is worth the risk, it is clear the marijuana business is no longer just a…
By Manisha Sinha The abolition movement was an interracial radical social movement of disfranchised people, men and women, white and black, free and enslaved. Slave resistance lay at its heart….
In his classic work, The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon laid out an extensive explanation of how an oppressed people, which does not fight fiercely and self-consciously against…
By Adam Sanchez Above Photo: Stokely Carmichael delivers his “Black Power” speech at a rally in Broad Street Park in Greenwood, Mississippi. From zinnedproject.org Note: This article points out that people are…
By Lauren Karaffa Slavery has been abolished in the United States since 1865, when the 13thAmendment was passed in the ashes of the Civil War. Well, almost abolished. Actually, the…
By: Allison Keyes People pray in front of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., on July 17, 2015, the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting at the church. John Moore/Getty…
By: Milton Washington Scene from commercial for laundry detergent that aired in China YouTube screenshot “Now the Chinese are talking s–t about us, too?” My friend Keba semiwhispered, wide-eyed, leaning into…
The cretin who took an assault weapon into Pulse, an Orlando nightclub, on “salsa night” is beneath contempt. Was his target the LBGTQ community, Latinos, or simply human beings? After all, it…
Professor Cornel West. (photo: Robin Holland) By George Souvlis, openDemocracy Last year, when Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the US presidency, few believed that it…
By Jeet Heer Imagine an autopsy that concludes the cause of death was a drug overdose. After the funeral, distraught family members assemble to talk about how they could have prevented…
By Matt Stannard, Public Banking Institute — I’m for public banks because people have a right to share in sustainable abundance, such abundance is relatively easy to achieve structurally and…