Dr. Maulana Karenga Every people must have, put forth and pursue a clear and compelling vision of what it wants for itself, of what it defines and seeks as a…
Senator Bernie Sanders doesn’t get race! He gets economics, he gets Wall Street, he gets trade, and he gets distribution. He just doesn’t get race. Perhaps one of his lowest moments in this…
BY JESSE JACKSON March 8, 2016 Last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan denounced Donald Trump for playing footsie with David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan, saying Republicans are…
By Tennyson Joseph IN A RECENTLY published journal article, I argued that Caribbean election results roughly since 2000 have been reflecting a “collapse of the post-colonial order”. My main argument…
The Crisis of American Democracy America prides itself in being the world’s oldest democracy and in the past, has been unafraid to export these values to the rest of…
Dr. Maulana Karenga As we mark this year’s Black History Month II: Women Focus, we will again pay rightful homage to Black women, African women everywhere—to the pioneers, heroines,…
By: Kirsten West Savali Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders shake hands at the start of their MSNBC Democratic Candidates Debate Feb. 4, 2016, in Durham, N.H. …
Prisoners inside prison yard. (photo: AP) By John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News The country’s two largest private prison corporations, GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) released their annual financial…
BY JESSE JACKSON March 1, 2016 Presidential campaigns often turn raw. Politicians reach for sound bites that bite. Often they gain by playing on fears, winning by division, not…
By: Lauren Victoria Burke So which one will it be, folks? If you’re voting on the Democratic side, are you going for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton? Who really has…
“Trump’s embrace of gutter politics plays to the misplaced fears and anger of many whites who have longed for a hate whisperer who could sense their outrage over the audacity…