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…
By Nick Turse The following excerpt is taken from the afterward of Nick Turse’s new book, Tomorrow’s Battlefield: US Proxy Wars & Secret Ops in Africa [3] (Haymarket, 2015) JUBA,…
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. In a lecture at Harvard during my freshman year, a professor—who may have been Martin Peretz—offered an insight that left a profound impact upon me. “Citizen,”…
By Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland and Jamiles Lartey in New York Black Americans are more than twice as likely to be unarmed when killed during encounters with police as white…
By Matt Ford After Ferguson, a noticeable gap in criminal-justice statistics emerged: the use of lethal force by the police. The federal government compiles a wealth of data…
By Henry A. Giroux (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)“Let’s hope it isn’t too late to listen, listen intently, carefully, minds open, hearts full. Let’s hope.” – James Baldwin In 1963,…
As a visit to post-uprising Baltimore confirms, high-profile police murders are only part of the problem. (photo: Robert Stolarik/NYT) By Matt Taibbi When Baltimore exploded in protests a few weeks…














