
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…
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…
By Christina Pazzanese/Harvard Staff Writer Credit: Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer “This is not about retribution and anger, it’s about atonement; it’s about the building of bridges across lines of moral justice,” said…
By Terrance Heath In the 2016 presidential primary, Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders can’t afford to take African-American votes for granted. With the Iowa caucus and the New…
By Simon T. Meiners Each February millions of Americans pretend that white supremacy is dead. Black History Month? Reverse racism. Slavery? It’s over. Reparations? Fat chance. But here’s what few seem to understand: History…
By: Kirsten West Savali Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson Ben Carson wants us to know that he’s a black man, unlike President Barack Obama. He needs voters, white voters in particular,…
There was a time in Jamaican politics that Parties never really issued manifestoes. When they began, they were not that carefully developed. In today’s world of public relations and internet…
February 23, 2016. In the presidential campaign, we’ve seen libels on immigrants, fear mongering about Syrian refugees, arguments over Medicare for All and Obamacare, concerns about big money corrupting…
The morality of remembrance is deeply and indelibly rooted in the culture and consciousness of African people. Indeed, it is expressed repeatedly in our ancient sacred texts and in…
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. I met Bernie Sanders in the late 1980s when he was a visiting fellow at Harvard University still contemplating his political future. We had…