By: Charles D. Ellison Dylann Storm Roof appears in a mugshot from an arrest in Columbia, S.C., prior to the massacre of nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church…
by Dr. Annelle Primm, (Convener, All Healers Mental Health Alliance) The unrest in Baltimore during the spring of 2015 following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody has…
By Ta-Nehisi Coates Darhil Crooks / The Atlantic And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white. —James Baldwin…
By: Danielle C. Belton A protester wraps himself in a U.S. flag in Ferguson, Mo., Nov. 25, 2014, during demonstrations a day after violent protests and looting following the grand…
By JONATHAN M. KATZ A Dominican soldier at the National Migration Office in Santo Domingo on June 24. The government provided buses for Haitians to deport themselves voluntarily after a…

Los Angeles Sentinel, Dr. Maulana Karenga Surely, the celebration or rather observation of the 4th of July after Charleston must have a new meaning and a new message about where…
BRIDGETOWN – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to attend this week’s Caribbean Community summit in Barbados, CARICOM officials said Tuesday, adding that the presence of the head of the…
By Shireen Ahmed and Dave Zirin Nigeria forward Ngozi Okobi celebrates scoring against Sweden in a Group D soccer match in the 2015 Women’s World Cup. (USA TODAY) As the…
By Tanya Steele Bree Newsome climbs a flagpole in Columbia, South Carolina. , Video still courtesy of The Tribe / Youtube., On Friday, June 24, I turned on my…
The US government does not currently keep a comprehensive record of people killed by police. Instead the FBI runs a voluntary program for law enforcement agencies to submit numbers of…
By Robert Borosage Greece is now on the brink. It cannot pay its creditors, starting with the missed payment to the International Monetary Fund. Its banks are closed, unable to…

(Left to right) Aiyegro Ome, chair of the TTNCR; Rodger Samuel, Minister of National Diversity & Social Integration; Winston Dookeran, Foreign Minister; Prof. Hilary Beckles. The University of the West…