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…

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…