By: Danielle C. Belton Barack Obama is going to be in the history books. This will happen regardless of his critics or his fans, both of which are legion. It…

BY JESSE JACKSON December 8, 2015 In the horror in San Bernardino, Calif., a husband and wife walked into a social services center armed with two AR-15 style semiautomatic…

Even in the midst of the rising tide of struggle in which we are now engaged against racism in its openly violent and hide- ous forms, as well as its…

The political mass meetings are still in full swing but there will be no general election until perhaps early next year. It means Christmas in Jamaica can be about the…
By V.P. Franklin The article “John Hope Franklin: Race and the Meaning of America” by Harvard University’s Drew Gilpin Faust in the 17 December 2015 issue of the New York…
By Nadia Prupis Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (Photo: Noticia al Día) Venezuela’s right wing won a majority of seats in the country’s National Assembly on Sunday, signalling a major political…
By Lauren McCauley Demonstrators protest the shooting of Laquan McDonald along the Magnificent Mile in Chicago on Nov. 27, 2015. (Photo: Joshua Lott/Getty Images) Demonstrators protest the shooting of Laquan…
François Hollande on Tuesday became the first president of France to make a formal state visit to Haiti, where bountiful resources and brutal plantation slavery made it the European nation’s…
By Phillip Smith / Alternet blacklivesmatter_0.png The Black Lives Matter movement sprung out of the unjust killings of young black men (Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown), either at…
by Chris Lehmann America has a curious attachment to the idea of gaudy wealth as the ultimate fount of virtue. Sure, there are a handful of saintly figures in…

Above Photo: Black Lives Matter Minneapolis marches after the shooting by white supremacists. Facebook/Adja Gildersleve. When five protesters were shot by white supremacists in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 22, my…
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) call on all progressives across the United States to join together in a broad coalition against the rising tide of racist and nativist politics…