
For Carib News 9/26/16 Prime Minister Andrew Holness graced the Jamaican Diaspora in New York by appearing at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Jamaica, Queens last Thursday, September 22, 2016. The…
For Carib News 9/26/16 Prime Minister Andrew Holness graced the Jamaican Diaspora in New York by appearing at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Jamaica, Queens last Thursday, September 22, 2016. The…
By Sharda Sekaran Step one: Make sure you have a badge and the person you are murdering is black. Step two: Add drugs. Terence Crutcher was gunned down by a…
For Carib News 9/20/16 The Republican Presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, after years of perpetuating a hoax that President Obama was not born in the United States, on Friday, September 16 capitulated…
September 13, 2016 Are black voters so loyal to Democrats that their issues are ignored? Donald Trump suggests as much, arguing that blacks had “nothing to lose” by voting for…
For Carib News 9/15/16 Secretary of State, John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, have chiseled out a tentative ceasefire that began Monday, September 12 and if the ceasefire holds, more…
By Vijay Prashad What is happening in America? The city of Milwaukee in the State of Wisconsin was convulsed in violence after the fatal shooting of a black man by police…
By Jane McAlevey Photo Credit: twbuckner / Wikimedia The following is an adapted excerpt from the new book No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey (Oxford…
Are you ready to vote? Are you registered? These may seem like simplistic questions, especially for those who are aware, but every year some folks are denied access to the polls because…
The last time I saw James Baldwin was at a memorial colloquium on Hoyt Fuller at Cornell University in 1984 at which we were both presenting. He was talking, as…
For Carib News 9/8/16 The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a heavily redacted findings into the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation. As Bernie Sanders pointed out in the Democratic Primary,…
by Robert J. Barsocchini As Colin Kaepernick’s choice to remain seated for the US national anthem continues to highlight and provoke conversation about racism and oppression in the country,…
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…