
While millions of children (and teachers) welcome the call to go back to school in August and early September, all is not well in classrooms and school districts around the…
While millions of children (and teachers) welcome the call to go back to school in August and early September, all is not well in classrooms and school districts around the…
By Jamiles Lartey The story of 13-year-old Cornelius Hawkins and 271 other enslaved black Americans sold “down the river” by cash-strapped administrators during Georgetown University’s early years, is compelling precisely because of how…
The Epidemic of Violence and Fratricide in Chicago and America’s Dark Ghettos The tragic death of Nykea Aldridge, the cousin of basketball star Dwayne Wade, has once again called the…
By Herb Boyd In one way Colin Kaepernick, the San Francisco 49’ers quarterback, brought to mind the courageous act of Rosa Parks, who chose to sit rather than move…
Colin Kaepernick. (photo: Peter Joneleit/Cal Sport Media/AP Images) By Jon Schwarz, The Intercept Before a preseason game on Friday, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the playing of…
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…