By Susan Ferriss (Screengrab: @ShaunKinCaptured on video, a white South Carolina school police officer violently tosses a black student out of her desk, drags her across the floor and cuffs…

By Basil Wilson For Carib News 11/4/15 In his remaining tenure as President of the United States, President Obama has indicated his willingness to make changes in the United…
By Andrea Germanos Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaking at George Mason University on Wednesday. (Image: screengrab/BernieSanders.com) Bernie Sanders on Wednesday evening slammed U.S. drug policy and called for the…
By Cambria Roth October 8, 2015 If the state says you go to bed by 10 o’clock, then you should make sure that by 11, the streets of our cities…
By Peter Dreier In the early 1900s, socialists led the movements for women’s suffrage, child labor laws, consumer protection laws and the progressive income tax. (Photo: File) Now that Sen….

Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears America’s forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South A coffle of slaves being marched…
The education system resembles the justice system: arrest minorities at the first sign of trouble, use force, and don’t punish bad cops. As the video of a South Carolina sheriff’s…
By John Nichols Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders reacts to supporters during a concert hosted by his campaign in Davenport, Iowa. (Photo: AP / Charlie Neibergall) Des Moines—When William…
Forget retirement worries: once a fat cat, always a fat cat. The top 100 chief executive are sitting on pension pots worth $4.9bn (£3.2bn) – equal to the total retirement…
By Hazel Trice Edney In this screenshot of one of the videos, Officer Ben Fields wrestles 16-year-old to the floor before dragging and tossing her across the classroom. (TriceEdneyWire.com)…
By: Steven J. Niven Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua, Utica, N.Y., 1850 There are relatively few detailed, firsthand accounts of the 12 million Africans captured and forcibly transported to the Americas in…
By Felice León ‘The history is what the history is. And it is disrespectful, to white people, to soften the history.’ “Why do you think that so many white people…