‘Know your history…what exists was built upon blood and injustice’ Many in the region have been attempting to achieve a fine balance between acknowledging Queen Elizabeth II’s steadfastness and wrestling…
Mourn the Queen, not her empire. She helped obscure a bloody history of decolonization whose proportions and legacies have yet to be adequately acknowledged. By Maya Jasanoff, The New York…
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA — Groundbreaking and original CNN anchor Bernard Shaw has died of pneumonia, his family confirmed on Thursday, September 8, 2022 Shaw, 82, died a day…
Labor Day is a time to observe and celebrate the contributions of workers. But it’s important to bring focus to the original architects of the American economy: Black people. By…
By Arianna Coghill, Mother Jones — As union activity continues to make headlines, more Americans are coming around to the idea that protecting workers’ rights is a good thing—maybe even a…
By Taiwanna Milligan, Facing South — This summer I went on strike at Dollar General in Holly Hill, South Carolina. My coworkers and I were standing up for our rights and fighting…
Nearly 200,000 people in Mississippi’s capital don’t have water to drink, flush toilets, or fight fires. By Joseph Lee, Grist — Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves has declared a state of…
Williams, who lost possibly her last match on Friday night, made herself felt beyond the game as arguably no player ever has. By Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker — It…
A functioning democracy could easily dispatch Donald Trump and his doppelgängers. A failed democracy and bankrupt liberalism assures their ascendancy. By Chris Hedges, Common Dreams — There is a fatal disconnect…
Policymakers admit that historical ties between Africa and the Caribbean have been neglected in the commercial sphere, but a major forum in Barbados charted a new path for economic relations….
September 5, 2022 — On this Labor Day edition of Vantage Point, Bill Fletcher joins the Professor Dr. Ron Daniels to discuss the exploitation of Black labor and extraction of…
“These are the last blows of the Imperialist right, which resorts to judicial persecution, coup d’états, and assassinations to preserve the hegemony it has lost,” Evo Morales said. By teleSUR …