
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…
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…
By Jonathan Easley Former Ohio state lawmaker Nina Turner has emerged as one of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s most prominent surrogates, adding another twist to a political career that has rankled…
For Carib News 4/13/16 Michael Manley, the former Prime Minister of Jamaica, aptly stated that in a capitalist society the people are guests in the house of capitalists but…
By Walter Fields The “Big Four” civil rights leaders meeting with President Lyndon Johnson in the Oval Office. While there were allusions to the partisan preferences of civil rights leaders…