Yesterday, Barack Obama sent a letter to Congress announcing that he was applying the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to Venezuela…
There is no justice-yielding present or dignity-affirming future for a people that concedes its rightful place as primary subject in its own history and willingly…
“Selma can’t be a celebration. It must be an awakening. If we are not full citizens, we are not free. If we cannot access the same opportunities as whites in America, we are only conditionally free.”
In America the concept of reparations for slavery is generally thought to have originated during the Civil War era…
Last week the Justice Department released the results of a long and thorough investigation into the killing of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson. The investigation concluded that there was not enough evidence to prove a violation of federal law by Officer Wilson.
As President Obama prepared to lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge spanning the Alabama River in Selma to commemorate the 50th anniversary of that historic march for voting rights on Saturday, he said that we as a nation have many “more bridges to cross.”
Jail is not supposed to be where you put the mentally ill or those too poor to pay bail.
On March 7, 1965, protesters marched along Alabama’s Edmund Pettus Bridge on a mission led by Martin Luther King Jr. and guided by his goal to achieve fair voting rights.
I’ve been in transit or offline all of today and didn’t see President Obama’s Selma speech in real time.
This year has already seen some important and potentially historic developments in the campaign for reparations.
The Internet is such a part of everyday life that many people don’t notice how much they rely on it. Those Skype calls to faraway relatives?
Article 14 of the United Nations General Assembly’s Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparations provides “an adequate..