By Ben BeckerWhat we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to…
By Ben BeckerWhat we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to…
By: Charles D. Ellison A voter listens to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speak in Denmark, S.C., on Feb. 12, 2016, a day after her debate with rival candidate Bernie Sanders. Let’s…
I thank President Hollande, Minister Pau Langevin, for their gracious invitation to this momentous occasion. I thank the Ministers, the president of the Senate and the President of the National…
In the context and currents of human history, African liberation is an awesome ongoing historical project and a living practice of daily life. It is that long, hard…
For all their dueling ideologies, Senator Bernie Sanders and “presumptive Republican nominee” Donald Trump are two sides of the same coin. Both of them are angry, so intensely so, that…
In presidential politics, this nuisance thing called ‘history’ often has a way of rearing its sometimes ugly head. Political operatives often deny it, try to deflect its impact or…
May 17, 2016 America is literally falling apart. In Flint, children were poisoned by the lead contamination of the water. In Washington, the subway system is plagued by fires…
I was apprehensive when I learned that President Obama would give the commencement speech at Howard University this year. I feared a repeat of his Morehouse speech, his yammering and scolding…
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson The prototypical Trump backer is a poorly educated, slob of a blue collar white male worker or farmer in the backwoods of the Deep South or…
By: Jason Johnson Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop in Rothschild, Wis., April 2, 2016. Political pundits said all last spring that Donald…
May 10, 2016 Chicago, America’s third largest city, is plagued by violence and poverty, made worse by racial and class divisions. A poll just released by the Kaiser Foundation…
By Bill Scher Donald Trump has a trick he likes to use when he wants to communicate two different messages to two different constituencies: incoherence. It doesn’t take much to…