HAVANA, Cuba, Friday January 10, 2014 – In the week since Cubans were granted the right to buy new and used vehicles from the state without special permission, markups of 400 percent…
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Seven years before legal marijuana went on sale this month in my home state of Colorado, the drug warriors in President George W. Bush’s administration released an advertisement that is now worth revisiting.
By Dr. Conrad Worrill, PhD
“Without vigorous Black Nationalist thinking and an aggressive Black Nationalist program of action, we will continue to chase false dreams created by our oppressors”
The Officers and Board of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century (IBW) extends condolences to Sister Amina Baraka and family on the passing of Amira Baraka, a cultural and…
By Kshama Sawant This city has made glittering fortunes for the super wealthy and for the major corporations that dominate Seattle’s landscape. At the same time, the lives of working…
by Anthony Monteiro
“The defense of Amiri is the defense of our national liberation and working class emancipatory aspirations.”
One week after the inauguration of new mayor Bill de Blasio, Melissa Mark-Viverito has been elected speaker of the New York City Council.
Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has died . He was 79.
by ROSEMARY LÉVY ZUMWALT
In his memoir, Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers, Memories of Mississippi 1964-65, Jim Dann put to paper the stories from his time in Mississippi 50 years ago, working as a young college student for fifteen months…
It was 50 years ago that President Lyndon B. Johnson used his State of the Union address to declare an “all-out war on human poverty and unemployment.” The problems Johnson raised — high poverty rates, long-term unemployment, lack of medical care and housing, racial discrimination and limited access to education and training — are just as urgent today. Yet, despite growing awareness of inequality, a policy consensus remains elusive.
Lyndon Johnson started the War on Poverty 50 years ago. Conservatives claim its a failure because poverty still exists, but the evidence is clear: without the social safety net, things in America would be much worse.
By Joe Colas
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (HCNN) — During an historic and frank dialogue at the border town of Ouanaminthe, Dominican Republic authorities pledged to enact measures to safeguard the basic rights of Haitians and their descendants living in the country.
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