African heads of state—many outfitted in elegant, brightly colored, traditional attire—gathered under a canopy tent on the White House’s South Lawn Tuesday night for a state dinner-esque gala. They dined, mingled and did some dancing with a little help from Lionel Richie.
On July 29, Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Keith Ellison did something unique for a member of Congress.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a thing at The Atlantic making the case for reparations.
One of the greatest weeks in progressive political history started on July 30, 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid bills into law.
President Barack Obama’s summit with African leaders is the largest gathering of the continent’s heads of state with a sitting US leader.
Black Law Enforcement Organizations from throughout New York State, which included The Grand Council of Guardians…
Israelis and Palestinians are still burying their loved ones as Gaza’s third war in six years continues.
Fifty-two years in the life of a nation is not a long time. In comparison to Chinese civilization, Jamaica’s fifty-two years is like an evening past.
More than 40 African heads of state touched down in Washington, D.C., on Monday for the first-ever three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit and White House gala, but concerns about the deadly Ebola virus loom over the event—potentially overshadowing the festivities.
It is an exceptional event, even measured by Washington’s standards.
For white America, confronting its own racism is a lot like attitudes surrounding the virus that can lead to AIDS.
I speak this evening, in this honourable chamber of the House of Commons, as Chairman of the Caricom Commission on Reparations.
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