By Thomas Piketty Excerpt From the Introduction to Capital in the Twenty-First Century: “Social distinctions can be based only on common utility.”—Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, article…

By William I. Robinson (Image: Rising tide via Shutterstock)We are nearing 2016, the year when the richest 1 percent of humanity will own more than the rest of the world, according to projections…

Max Whittaker / Reuters / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic By Rebecca J. Rosen, Adrienne Green, Li Zhou, Alana Semuels, and Joe Pinsker For nearly half a century now, inequality in America has been…

By Lynn Stuart Parramore , Shutterstock, Orsola Costantini, senior economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, is the author of a new paper that exposes the disturbing history of how a…

By Patricia J. Williams Children march in New York City on November 22, 2015, the anniversary of Tamir Rice’s death at the hands of Cleveland police. (Photo: a katz / Shutterstock.com) In a world…

A former college president once said to me that today’s headlines is tomorrow’s fish wrap. There is some truth to that but often headlining events spill over to ensuing years…

By Allie Yee The week of December 9, 2015, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a Texas redistricting case that has the potential to the change the balance of political…
By Robert Reich Right-wing mega-donor Sheldon Adelson has just bought the biggest newspaper in Nevada, the Las Vegas Review-Journal — just in time for Nevada’s becoming a key battleground for…
By Adam Johnson Racism in media can be a difficult thing to pin down, but like pornography, you know it when you see it. It’s that toxic combination of bias fulfillment,…

The Board of Directors and the members of the Collective Empowerment Group (CEG) were pleased to honor Mr. James Clingman at its 20th Anniversary Gala, held in Bowie, Maryland on December 3, 2015. Clingman, economic empowerment writer, speaker, teacher, and Black newspaper columnist for nearly 30 years, received the Chairman’s Award from the CEG. Mr. Clingman has been a staunch advocate for CEG for nearly two decades.

By: Kirsten West Savali Tamir Rice Today, a grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio does what this system does. They put an exclamation point on the statement that black lives don’t matter….