By Phillip Smith / AlterNet Photo Credit: Schmidt_Alex / Shutterstock.com With 2016 now behind us, it’s time for some year-end accounting, and when it comes to fatalities related to drug…
For Carib News 1/6/17 The precipitous decline in violent crime that began nationwide in the 1990s caught criminologists by surprise. There were some criminologists like John Dilulio and the late James Q….
Elections Matter Trump Will Be Reagan on Steroids The first of Three Essays on the Impact and Consequences of the 2016 Presidential Election During the months leading up…
By: Michael Arceneaux Kanye West and President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York Dec. 13, 2016 TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images If I squint with my good eye…
Matthew “Peanut” Johnson was sixteen when San Francisco Police officer Alvin Johnson killed him. The unarmed teen was said to have been fleeing a stolen car, and Johnson claimed that…
For Carib News 12/27/16 These are the last days of the leap year of 2016 and at a vote in the United Nations Security Council, the Permanent Members and Non-Permanent Members made…
December 27, 2016 The final days of the Obama presidency are upon us. His popularity is rising with the economy, and with the increasingly stark contrasts to his successor. It…
By Dr. Ron Daniels — January 1st marked the 213th Anniversary of the Haitian Revolution which spawned the world’s first Black Republic; the first time in human history that an…
By William A. Darity Jr. Bill Frakes / AP Born in 1953, I am a child of the waning years of legal segregation in the United States. My parents, on…
50th Anniversary Founder’s Kwanzaa Statement Kwanzaa, the Nguzo Saba and Our Constant Striving: Repairing, Renewing and Remaking the world The 50th anniversary of the pan-African holiday, Kwanzaa, of necessity brings…
For Carib News 12/19/16 In this week of Christmas activities while children are scrambling to open presents under the Christmas tree, adults are preparing for an inaugural for the 45th President of…
December 20, 2016 On Monday, the Electoral College met to cast their ballots for the new president after a bitterly contested election in a deeply polarized nation. On Sunday, the…