CHICAGO (CMC) – A prominent United States lawmaker says he will re-introduce legislation in the US Congress to study reparations for African Americans as Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries push ahead with plans for reparation from Europe.

CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) – The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan told a group of political leaders, researchers and activists that true commitment and a firm unwavering demand for real justice is required, if the call for reparations is ever to be taken seriously by the governments of the earth.

According to a study conducted by researches at the University of Minnesota, nonwhite people (black, Asian, Hispanic), regardless of income…

The conference is held at a key point in history. The reparations movement has floundered here, but it is growing in the Caribbean.
More than 40 years ago, psychiatry professor Lester Grinspoon wrote a groundbreaking book on marijuana that the New York Times dubbed at the time “the best dope on pot.”

The Budget Debate for 2014-2015 has begun. The Governor General has given his throne speech and the Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr. Peter Phillips, has presented his “Stay the Course” budget.
When Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert was announced as the replacement for David Letterman on CBS’ “Late Night,” progressives celebrated while conservatives retched.

America’s earliest academies, like the nation itself, have a legacy of slavery woven into their very fabric. In his latest work MIT historian Craig Steven Wilder (GSAS’89,’93,’94) examines the tarnished relationship between the Atlantic slave trade and the rise of the American college.

WASHINGTON D.C.,IPS – In the United States, African American children continue to face more barriers to success than any other race, new research suggests.

Faced with the prospect of losing miles of beautiful white beaches – and the millions in tourist dollars that come with them – from erosion driven by climate change…

In Tuscaloosa today, nearly one in three black students attends a school that looks as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened.