The long shadow of systemic racism continues to harm generations of Black agricultural communities that face entrenched economic obstacles to success. By Wesley Brown, Civil Eats — Eugene “Butch” Flenaugh,…
By Henry Giroux, CounterPunch — I consider the survival of National Socialism within democracy to be potentially more menacing than the survival of fascist tendencies against democracy. –Theodor Adorno 1959…
By Harold Isaac and Brian Ellsworth, Reuters — A string of recent arms-trafficking scandals in Haiti, including the discovery of weapons in a shipping container labeled as church donations, has…
Newport launched more slave trading voyages than anywhere else on the continent. Local efforts and a state law now push students to learn that history. By Asher Lehrer-Small, The 74…
According to the Brookings Institute, the median wealth of a white household is $188,200, which is 7.8 times more than the average Black household at $24,100. By Stacy M. Brown,…
By Adam Taylor, Washington Post — When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Cameroon this week, he called out an entire continent for “hypocrisy.” Europe had decisively identified Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
A war between Haitian gangs which has left hundreds dead since it flared up three weeks ago has spread to the centre of the capital, Port-au-Prince. By Vanessa Buschschlüter, BBC…
Marc Morial, the National Urban League president and CEO, carried an emphatic message to the civil rights organization’s members at its first in-person conference since 2019. By Derek T. Dingle,…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Certainly, practicing the morality of remembrance, we cannot pass the month of July without paying rightful homage to our foremother, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, born…
U.S. groups are calling on the Biden administration to stop its cruel sanctions that are creating such hardship for the Cuban people. By Medea Benjamin and Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan,…
By Julianne Malveaux — The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, signed into law on June 25, 2022, was a win for the Biden-Harris Administration. The legislation was genuinely bipartisan, more so…
Toni Morrison said it best, “The function, the very serious function of racism is a distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over…