By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Chicago Sun-Times
Confirmation hearings for Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, named by Donald Trump to be attorney general of the United States, will begin on Jan. 10, before Trump is even inaugurated. The rush and insistence on only two days of hearings reflect Republican efforts to…
By Basil Wilson, Carib News – When Barack Obama was elected to the Presidency in 2008, there was some evidence that America had entered into a post-racial zone. But the election of Obama in 2008 and 2012 was only part of what was occurring in America. At the same time that the Democratic Party…
This is the month and year that marks the 52nd anniversary of the martyrdom and murder of Malcolm X, his assassination and ultimate sacrifice for the love and liberation of his people and the advancement of the cause of human freedom and flourishing in the world…
By Kali Holloway / AlterNet
Trump is the symptom; racism is the sickness – I know enough about this country to know that Donald Trump is not a fluke. I know that Trump is not really un-American, not if we’re talking about what America actually is as opposed to what it pretends to be. Forget about emails and Russian hacking and James Comey and the beer test, forget uselessly relitigating the election ad infinitum. Almost 63 million people voted for Donald Trump…
I love Black History, and so revel in Black History Month. Not that Black History should be constrained to a month. Indeed, when I wrote my book Surviving and Thriving:…
By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout “Ignorance is Strength.” — George Orwell In a strange but revealing way, popular culture and politics intersected soon after Trump first assumed the presidency of…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — If we are to know ourselves rightly, honor our history, radically improve our present and forge a future worthy of the names African and human,…
By Jesse Jackson January 31, 2017 President Donald Trump’s most recent provocation — suddenly issuing an order banning the admission into the United States of refugees and immigrants from seven…
Dr. Maulana Karenga The New Year, as always, no doubt found many of us joining in the larger society ritual of resolution-making which is more an expression of habit and…
Every day that he holds the Presidency, Donald Trump does something outrageous. He blusters, he just plain lies, and he bullies. He pushes his decisions, his executive orders, down the…
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson The political doomsday wisdom is that there’s almost nothing the Democrats can do to stop Trump and the GOP from steamrolling any piece of legislation and…
By Pamela Newkirk Protesters at Women’s March Protesters at the Women’s March in Washington, DC, on January 21, 2017. (Sipa via AP Images) I’m a journalist and journalism professor, but…
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