It was quite shocking to hear in the Government Oversight Committee hearings that the Secret Service was incapable of thwarting an intruder who had scaled the White House fence…
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Like most people, Sergeant Matt Darisse believed driving with a broken tail light is against the law. He was wrong.
Student-loan debt is at an all-time high, with both black and white college students borrowing at record levels. But black graduates are much more likely to be saddled with large amounts of debt, according to a new analysis from the Gallup-Purdue Index, which measures the relationship between the college experience and graduates’ lives.
By Ta-Nehisi Coates On Thursday, I was at Cornell making the case for reparations. I’ve never written anything that has garnered this much attention, and I confess some bewilderment at…
Has this President’s life been devalued in a way that could even have penetrated the thinking of those who have sworn to protect him?
President Obama has had a sterling record of winning elections but not an impressive record in getting legislation through the United States Congress.
Each year, around this time, Caribbean leaders join other presidents and prime ministers in convening in New York to participate in the annual United Nations General Debate. And each…
“Instead of lynchings, we now enjoy the spectacle of the fraternal-order-of-police executing blacks and browns as sport.”
The principle of reparations is as old as warfare and humankind and is well established in international law. The principle requires the party who has caused injuries to another to redress the damage caused either through monetary means, rehabilitation or material labour. The principle has been generally enforced by the victor on the vanquished and has become the core of the peace settlement. Its punitive streak has been evident quite early, in 202bc, when Rome exacted reparations from a defeated Carthage, an African city state, at the end of the second Punic war. It was at Versailles (1919), however, that a defeated Germany was constrained to yield to exacting demands, the trenchant and prescient criticisms of which would launch J M Keynes into international acclaim. Seeming to be magnanimous, the succeeding generation would believe that it was rather generous, again with a defeated Germany, at the peace constructed at Yalta, Potsdam and Paris (1946).
The summer of 2014 was a summer of protest: African-Americans took to the streets with a simple but ambitious demand: “Treat us like human beings.”
Profiteers and their political allies don’t give up the ship without mobilizing all their resources for the fight. They will grant small concessions, window dress their past practice, even invite their most intransigent enemies into the tent, but they will not change unless a political force emerges that compels them to do so.
he U.S. Justice Department asked the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department on Friday to order its officers not to wear bracelets in support of the white policeman who shot to death an unarmed black teenager last month, sparking protests.
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