Americans are so accustomed to speaking about civil rights as an historical era
General view of the Island of Gorée, Senegal, which was from the 15th to the 19th century, the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast.
Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson on Thursday issued a video apology to the family of Michael Brown…
First shipment of the ramped-up U.S. military response to Ebola arriving in Liberia. (Credit: US Army Africa/CC-BY-2.0)
Recent developments in Latin America continue that region’s remarkable surge toward democracy and socialism…
WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) – The departure of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder deprives the Obama administration of a powerful voice on civil rights at a time when riots in Ferguson, Missouri, have thrust the issue into the spotlight.
he U.S. Justice Department asked the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department on Friday to order its officers not to wear bracelets in support of the white policeman who shot to death an unarmed black teenager last month, sparking protests.
The chatter about President Barack Obama’s legacy has already begun, and Michelle Obama is leading the charge…
Bill Toledo, Peter MacDonald and George James Sr.—members of the Navajo Code Talkers
In the Sixties and even for a short time afterward, Blackness was conceived and engaged as a very serious and sacred thing.
The evidence is all around us. As the United States crawls towards its 250th anniversary the nation’s racial discord is tearing it apart at its seams.
When journalist and TV critic Alessandra Stanley decided to open her recent New York Times profile of television producer Shonda Rhimes…