By William C. Anderson Black service members salute and pledge an oath of loyalty to a country that does not protect them after they have protected it. “If violence is…
Bill speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic, about his cover story on why America needs to reconcile with its racist past.
By Terrell Jermaine Starr Officially, Kalief Browder died as a result of suicide at his family’s home in the Bronx this weekend. Yet it’s not a stretch to say the…
By Elias Isquith In recent years, there’s been a small genre of left-of-center journalism that, following President Obama’s lead, endeavors to prove that things on Planet Earth are not just going…
By Austin C. McCoy In an undated handout photo, bullet holes are seen in a Chevy Malibu involved in a chase in Cleveland on November 29, 2012. Officer Michael Brelo,…
By: Peniel E. Joseph McKinney, Texas, Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt throws a 14-year-old girl down on the ground during an incident at a pool party June 5, 2015. As of…
June 5, 1995 I set foot in Haiti for the first time, leading a delegation of twenty African Americans eager to learn about the history, culture and state of development…
The video of the McKinney Texas police officer assaulting and verbally abusing Black children at a pool party is perhaps the perfect frame to discuss how African-American and Latino youth…
By David Commissiong The campaign to achieve the “payment” of Reparations to the nations and people of the Pan-African World for the atrocities committed against their ancestors and the…
They teach our children, drive our buses, clean our streets and deliver our mail. They staff the government and make it run. Their public-sector jobs are at the heart of…
Dr. Maulana Karenga This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organization Us and the introduction of the Nguzo Saba, the Seven Principles, and Kawaida philosophy…
Marie Arago, special to ProPublica by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan The neighborhood of Campeche sprawls up a steep hillside in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Goats rustle in trash…