By DR INDIRA MARTIN (Member of the Bahamas National Reparations Committee) With the Caribbean reparations movement gathering steam, it has become necessary to articulate, in public, the arguments and issues…
By: Charles D. Ellison Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson Check the latest polls and see neurosurgeon-turned-wannabe-president Ben Carson surf on a sudden wave of black support. Not that black…
By Robert Stitt The Huffington Post recently published a response to the New York times article “In Heroin Crisis, White Families Seek Gentler War on Drugs.” The articles point out…
November 10, 2015 We won the Voting Rights Act of 1965 at Selma, combining the power of a principled mass movement led by Dr. King and a compassionate president who…
By: Jason Johnson Dr. Ben Carson How do you explain a phenomenon like Ben Carson? Even better, how do you explain a phenomenon like Ben Carson in our 24-hour news…
Part 1. When we remember and recount the sacred narrative of Nat Turner, we must remember also the Kawaida fundamental teaching that our oppressor cannot be our teacher, especially about…
November 3, 2015 Across the country, parents have been in revolt against high-stakes standardized testing, with kids tested over and over again while creativity is cut out of classroom curricula….
By: Charles D. Ellison You can’t say we didn’t warn you, because we did. And after all that protesting noise all year about the plight of black folks under the…
By Basil Wilson For Carib News 11/4/15 In his remaining tenure as President of the United States, President Obama has indicated his willingness to make changes in the United…
Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears America’s forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South A coffle of slaves being marched…
By Hazel Trice Edney In this screenshot of one of the videos, Officer Ben Fields wrestles 16-year-old to the floor before dragging and tossing her across the classroom. (TriceEdneyWire.com)…
By Yesenia Barragan, teleSUR On a recent visit to Jamaica, British Prime Minister David Cameron made headlines when he eschewed the subject of reparations for the former British colony once…