By Michelle Alexander It is often said that if we do not learn from our history we are doomed to repeat it. I applaud Rep. Rush’s apology for supporting…
April 12, 2016 This country has made remarkable progress on civil rights over our history. We’ve moved from slavery to segregation to equal rights under the law. African-Americans have…
For Carib News 4/13/16 Michael Manley, the former Prime Minister of Jamaica, aptly stated that in a capitalist society the people are guests in the house of capitalists but…
Former President Bill Clinton had a heated exchange with a protester during a rally for Hillary Clinton on Thursday in Philadelphia. (photo: Ed Hille/The Philadelphia Inquirer/AP) By Michelle Alexander Bill…
By: Lauren Victoria Burke A Black Lives Matter protester is kept out of the main ballroom during the U.S. Conference of Mayors 84th Winter Meeting at the Capitol Hilton in…
Presidential Candidate Bill Clinton earning cool points on the Arsenio Hall Show Just when I thought former president Bill Clinton could not surpass his most racially offensive moment, he outdoes…
There is not a day that dawns that I do not read, remember and meditate on the sacred wisdom and mind-expanding insights of our ancestors—whether from my mother and…
By Basil Wilson For Carib News 3/6/16 More piercing questions from television journalists have apparently slowed the Trump juggernaut. He is still the front runner who will show up at the Republican…
April 5, 2016 On April 4, we celebrated the life of Dr. Martin Luther King even as we marked the 48th anniversary of his assassination. On April 5, voters…
BY JULIANNE MALVEAUX It is probably not especially politically correct to bring more race matters into the debacle that is also known as the Donald Trump quest for the…
By: Todd Steven Burroughs Kunta Kinte now joins USS Enterprise Capt. James Tiberius Kirk and Sherlock Holmes in the growing worldwide popular-culture club of the 21st-century reboot. I was shocked to learn…
In this era of political madness, mean-spiritedness, racial and religious scapegoating, continued and expanding police violence, obscene inequities in wealth and power, mass incarceration, extensive and needless poverty and proposals…