By Mike Whitney in Counterpunch – Let’s cut to the chase: Leaders of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) realize that global security cannot be entrusted to…
By Rev. Edward Pinkney. My name is Reverend Edward Pinkney. I am at Lakeland Correctional Facility, otherwise known as a prison, in Coldwater, Michigan. I am a victim of racial…
By Lena K. Gardner in StandingOnTheSideOfLove.org. Minneapolis, MN – Last November, I lay down with just under a hundred other people on an interstate highway in Minneapolis. Along with thousands…
By Hazel Trice Edney Denise Rolark Barnes, new NNPA chair. PHOTO: Roy Lewis/Trice Edney News Wire New NNPA Chair Denise Rolark Barnes responds to audience after the June 19…
Afro-descendant women leaders, women from diverse communities and different countries of the Americas and the Caribbean, aware of our responsibility as committed women, fighters and promoters of rights of women…
By Bijan Stephen If you were to map the black bodies destroyed by American police this year, you would have what looks like the shadow of a cancer creeping steadily…
A print shows African captives being taken on board a slave ship. Photograph: Print Collector/Getty By David Olusoga The past has a disconcerting habit of bursting, uninvited and unwelcome, into…

By Nathalie Baptiste An aerial view of downtown Port Au Prince on January 16, 2010 in Haiti. (Photo: Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock/US Air Force) The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti five years…
By Candida Moss Pope Francis has been on a “homecoming” tour in Latin America. During his trip to Bolivia on Thursday, the Pontiff apologized for sins and “offenses” committed by…
By Tomas Rios Serena Williams is shattering every record in tennis this year. Why isn’t she being paid like the women she is dominating in the process? Serena Williams is…
By Sarah Lazare A large crowd cheered as the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina statehouse on Friday. (Photo: Travis Dove/The New York Times ) Thousands flocked to…
By Jill Lepore Bernie Sanders walks into the Senate Chamber to vote against President Obama’s budget deal, two days after delivering an eight-and-a-half-hour speech in protest of the bill. Credit…