By: Tonyaa Weathersbee Two weeks before President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. and Cuba would reopen embassies that had been shuttered for more than 50 years, I was embarking on…
By Jamil Smith This year, as with every other year, nearly every presidential candidate is white, with the only exceptions being long shots in the mushrooming Republican field. Most candidates…
By Herb Boyd What is immediately essential for me about Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s lengthy epistle to his son is that “past is prologue.” But this is…
Second in a series for the 50th Anniversary Nguzo Saba 2015 Conference (September 24-27), celebrating the founding of our organization Us and the introduction of the Nguzo Saba (The Seven…
By Nadia Prupis Sandra Bland The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Friday announced it was joining the probe into the disturbing death of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black woman…
By Janell Ross President Obama said the nation can no longer “close their eyes” to racial inequality in the criminal justice system as he called for reform during a speech…
By Brit Bennett Coates’s “Between the World and Me” is written as an open letter to his teen-age son. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHEN VOSS/REDUX The night Trayvon Martin’s killer walked…
By Nadia Prupis President Barack Obama spoke to the NAACP in Philadelphia on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. (Screenshot/YouTube) In a speech to the annual convention of the NAACP in Philadelphia…
By Nkechi Taifa — President Obama changed 46 lives on Monday, commuting the prison terms of individuals who had been locked away serving long sentences for low-level, nonviolent offenses. “These…
By Dave ZirinTwitter Serena Williams wins the women’s singles final at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday July 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) There are numerous…
By Ari Berman Voting rights activists march through downtown Winston-Salem. (Ari Berman) Winston-Salem—On the first day of the federal trial challenging North Carolina’s new voting restrictions, thousands of voting-rights activists…
Report: The new debt trap: How the response to the last global financial crisis has laid the ground for the next This report (40 pages) and its executive summary (8 pages) investigates the debts…