By Jamil Smith This year, as with every other year, nearly every presidential candidate is white, with the only exceptions being long shots in the mushrooming Republican field. Most candidates…
By Herb Boyd What is immediately essential for me about Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s lengthy epistle to his son is that “past is prologue.” But this is…
Second in a series for the 50th Anniversary Nguzo Saba 2015 Conference (September 24-27), celebrating the founding of our organization Us and the introduction of the Nguzo Saba (The Seven…
By Nkechi Taifa — President Obama changed 46 lives on Monday, commuting the prison terms of individuals who had been locked away serving long sentences for low-level, nonviolent offenses. “These…
By Bijan Stephen If you were to map the black bodies destroyed by American police this year, you would have what looks like the shadow of a cancer creeping steadily…
By Jill Lepore Bernie Sanders walks into the Senate Chamber to vote against President Obama’s budget deal, two days after delivering an eight-and-a-half-hour speech in protest of the bill. Credit…
By Terrell Jermaine Starr / AlterNet If you thought slavery was outlawed in America, you would be wrong. The 13th amendment to the Constitution states that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,…
By Ta-Nehisi Coates Darhil Crooks / The Atlantic And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white. —James Baldwin…
By: Danielle C. Belton A protester wraps himself in a U.S. flag in Ferguson, Mo., Nov. 25, 2014, during demonstrations a day after violent protests and looting following the grand…
Los Angeles Sentinel, Dr. Maulana Karenga Surely, the celebration or rather observation of the 4th of July after Charleston must have a new meaning and a new message about where…
By Suzy Khimm When President Obama broke out into “Amazing Grace,” to the astonishment of millions who were watching and would watch his speech on Friday, it was a moment…
Yesterday, Air Force One touched down in Charleston South Carolina as the President of the United States arrived for the funeral of the late State Senator, Reverend Clementa Pinckney, one…