June 13, 2016 Press Release Renewed Push for Reparations Was Focus of Atlanta Meetings Members of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) were enthusiastically received in Atlanta June 10th…
June 13, 2016 Press Release Renewed Push for Reparations Was Focus of Atlanta Meetings Members of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) were enthusiastically received in Atlanta June 10th…
Muhammad Ali was, among other things, a proud Black man. He embraced his Blackness, and often referred to it. He is often quoted for saying he had no quarrel with…
By: Breanna Edwards Black students are almost four times as likely as white students to receive one or more out-of-school suspensions, new federal data released on Tuesday shows (pdf), underlining the grave disparity that still…
By Bill Fletcher Jr. / AlterNet I found myself reading about the impact of voter suppression, i.e., the efforts to inhibit voter registration and voter participation that have been orchestrated by Republican-dominated…
June 7, 2016 On Tuesday of this week, California and New Jersey will be the last big states to have primaries. (Residents in the District of Columbia vote in a…
Cuban President Raul Castro (front C) poses for group photos with guests during the opening ceremony of a summit of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) in Havana, capital of…
By William C. Anderson When Guido Menzio sat down on a regional jet for a short flight from Philadelphia to Syracuse, New York, he certainly couldn’t have guessed what…
Muhammad Ali with his parents. AP By Gillian B. White All the things that my father loved and admired about Muhammad Ali were the things my grandfather despised—or, perhaps more aptly,…
By: Todd Steven Burroughs An image from when iconic boxer Muhammad Ali fought the Man of Steel in the comics. DC Comics The best thing about going to my barbershop as…
By: Lawrence Ross Three-time World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali is greeted by the crowd the men’s 54kg boxing bouts at the Sydney Exhibition Centre during the Sydney Olympic Games in Sydney,…
By: Jason Johnson Black Muslim leader Malcolm X (2R), teasingly leaning on shoulder of tux-clad Cassius Clay (now Muhammad Ali) (L), who is sitting at soda fountain counter, surrounded by jubilant…
By David Remnick Muhammad Ali in Chicago, in 1966. CreditPHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS HOEPKER / MAGNUM What a loss to suffer, even if for years you knew it was coming. Muhammad Ali,…