Mark Peterson/Corbis Days after the massacre at a black church in South Carolina, some Americans woke to a vile surprise: KKK fliers with candy on their lawns. The propaganda—stuffed into plastic…
By Rev Jesse Jackson Today this systematic analysis is needed perhaps more than at any other time in our history. As the Rev Clyde Grubbs, of Tuckerman Creative Ministries for…
By Rebecca Traister When, on Wednesday night, a 21-year-old white man named Dylann Roof entered the Charleston church founded by former slave Denmark Vesey on the anniversary of Vesey’s planned 1822 slave…
By Kali Holloway In so many ways, the story of Dylann Roof, the shooting suspect who allegedly killed nine people in an historic South Carolina black church, is a parallel…
Another year has passed, Limbiko, and come and gone again is the special day and month, May 3rd, when your mother and father brought you into being and you…
By: Peniel E. Joseph McKinney, Texas, Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt throws a 14-year-old girl down on the ground during an incident at a pool party June 5, 2015. As of…
June 5, 1995 I set foot in Haiti for the first time, leading a delegation of twenty African Americans eager to learn about the history, culture and state of development…
The video of the McKinney Texas police officer assaulting and verbally abusing Black children at a pool party is perhaps the perfect frame to discuss how African-American and Latino youth…
They teach our children, drive our buses, clean our streets and deliver our mail. They staff the government and make it run. Their public-sector jobs are at the heart of…
Dr. Maulana Karenga This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organization Us and the introduction of the Nguzo Saba, the Seven Principles, and Kawaida philosophy…
By Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland and Jamiles Lartey in New York Black Americans are more than twice as likely to be unarmed when killed during encounters with police as white…
As a visit to post-uprising Baltimore confirms, high-profile police murders are only part of the problem. (photo: Robert Stolarik/NYT) By Matt Taibbi When Baltimore exploded in protests a few weeks…