For much of the right-wing media it was payday. Two New York City cops were murdered by a troubled gunman who had allegedly suggested on social media that he’d kill cops…
Pick up the phone, Mr. President! Make the call!” That was Alan Gross’s demand when I visited him in a Havana prison a year ago…
There were two big takeaways from President Obama’s Cuban opening. The first is obvious. After 55 years of U.S.-backed invasions, covert efforts to sabotage and overthrow Fidel Castro…
This has not been a good year for black males and law enforcement officers but it is also a year that has dramatized the troubled nature of national security in America.
Black sororities must remember their real brand is Black womanhood; intelligent, strong and culturally conscious, and not Greek letters
Part 2 of a Town Hall Meeting: “OUR BROTHERS & SISTERS KEEPERS: Strategies To Address Violence & Fratricide In Our Communities”, presented by Philadelphia Regional Justice Collaborative & The Institute…
Part 1 of a Town Hall Meeting: “OUR BROTHERS & SISTERS KEEPERS: Strategies To Address Violence & Fratricide In Our Communities”, presented by Philadelphia Regional Justice Collaborative & The Institute…
If there really was a war on drugs, it wouldn’t make for very good media fodder: bullet-riddled packets of cocaine (or cigarettes, for that matter) don’t bleed, and following the newspaper industry rhyme…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Recent protests against the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown have created a conundrum for the nation’s black fraternities and sororities: to remain relevant in the black community they need to be involved, but protect their reputations if demonstrations go awry.
Berkman says social revolutions do not happen by accident, but the same can be said of empires. They are forged out of the deliberate use of greed, theft, deceit, imperialism, and ruthless terror.
The question that remains, though, is what to do when there is another instance of police brutality that threatens to tear apart yet another community — or even the whole country?
Following the December 11 public meeting of the FCC where net neutrality activists disrupted and held a banner behind the commissioners, Chairman Tom Wheeler made a statement to the press that was supportive of Title II.