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…
By Nyle Port The peculiar American sport that is the national election is back in season: Republicans vs. Democrats. Red states vs. blue states. Donald Trump fanatics attacking…

For Carib News 3/30/16 Thursday, February 25, 2016 was the fifth time in Jamaica’s relative young democracy that power was transferred peacefully. There is no question regarding the integrity of the…

March 29, 2016 This year’s presidential primaries have highlighted the importance of people of color to the Democratic Party coalition. Hillary Clinton’s lead in the party’s nomination race comes…

It seems that on a daily basis the weaknesses and flaws of our nation’s justice system are exposed, revealing the deep biases that continue to undermine the public’s trust in…

There is clearly something hollow and shamelessly hypocritical about the eleventh-hour expressions of surprise and alarm concerning the emergence, racist rant and savage and simple-minded solutions to national and…

March 22, 2016 President Obama’s historic trip to Havana, Cuba — the first American president to visit since Calvin Coolidge in 1928 — opens the door to a new…

By: DeWayne Wickham Men play chess in a boarded-up doorway in the historic Old Havana neighborhood of Havana March 20, 2016. On his first day in Cuba, President Barack Obama…

Some words seem rarely mentioned in this highly toxic political season. We’ve heard about bombs and walls, but very little about peace. One is almost tempted, when some of the…

by Richard W. Behan For 24 years Bill and Hillary Clinton have courted Wall Street money with notable success. During that time the New York banks contributed: * $11.17 million to…
By: Kirsten West Savali Donald Trump continues his march to the Republican presidential nomination, spurred on by tapping into the racist paranoia of white conservatives all across the country who…