The month of August is a special month rich with history and initiatives of revolt, resistance and righteous struggle. It is the month of the beginning of the Haitian Revolution…
By Goldie Taylor They did not teach us about Nat Turner at the nearly all-white public schools I attended. Nor at the nearly all-black ones I went to. While our…
August 23, 2016 Donald Trump made a pitch for black votes this week, in his own inimitable fashion. Speaking in a virtually all-white suburb of Detroit, he suggested that African-American…
For Carib New 8/24/16 Donald Trump is like a raging bull hell-bent on conducting a presidential campaign that was doomed to failure. The polls clearly demonstrate that he is losing ground and…
By Katherine Beckett / The American Prospect Portrait of a young man in jail Arthur Longworth is currently serving life without the possibility of parole in Washington State. Art committed murder at…
Our American exceptionalism allows us to shimmer, too fully in our greatness. We are the biggest and the baddest. We are the best armed and the most influential. We win…
The Honorable Marcus Garvey (August 17, 1887—June 10, 1940) stands as a model and a monument of African liberational thought and practice and the human possibilities inherent it. And…
August 16, 2016 Now it is Milwaukee. On Saturday, a car with two African-American men was stopped for “suspicion.” The men fled, the policeman pursued, and the driver, reportedly armed, was…
By: T.D. Williams Professional football player Richard Sherman attends The Players’ Tribune Summer Party at No Vacancy on July 12, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Rich Polk/Getty Images for…
With a woman heading the ticket of the Democratic Party, it may be challenging for us to remember – that women have had the right to vote for less than…
The year 1965 began on an ominous and unsettling note—the assassination and martyrdom of Malcolm X, the Fire Prophet. Even in the white and winter cold of February, it was…
My first lesson in the workings of the Baltimore Police Department was received as a college student. While living in West Baltimore, in the heart of the ‘hood,’ young Black…