Bill De Blasio won the 2013 mayoralty election convincingly. That victory put an end to 20 years of Republican domination of a Democratic city.
Bill De Blasio won the 2013 mayoralty election convincingly. That victory put an end to 20 years of Republican domination of a Democratic city.
On October 8th, I learned about the death of Vonderrit Myers, another young Black man killed by a white police officer in Missouri.
by Davey D So the weekend dubbed #FergusonOctober is over. Thousands took to the streets of St Louis on Saturday. They attended big rallies and concerts on Sunday. St Louis University…
With all of the discussion about ISIS/ISIL, Al Qaeda, etc., one would think that the only terror on this planet is that derived from relatively small numbers of criminal fascists…
“The value put on black life by the occupation force in Ferguson and in our communities across the country is no different than the value put on the lives of the “natives” in Afghanistan and Iraq by the U.S. occupation forces.”
The spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa is a global health emergency. Countries around the world must join together to mobilize the resources…
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…
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.