In this Budget Debate 2014-2015, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller gave a marathon address to Parliament. Fidel Castro in his heyday was famous for giving speeches that went on ad infinitum.
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I recently attended the release of the National Urban League’s Annual State of Black America Report at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The Report is an extremely important document because it provides key indicators of Black progress in a number of social and economic areas in relationship to White Americans.
On October 22, 1949, The New Yorker published a report by Lillian Ross on that year’s Miss America Pageant. It begins,
There are thirteen million women in the United States between the ages of eighteen and twenty-eight. All of them were eligible to compete for the title of Miss America in the annual contest staged in Atlantic City last month if they were high-school graduates, were not and had never been married, and were not Negroes.
The individual analyses of the economists and drug policyexperts, signed by five Nobel Prize winners in economics, expose the collateral damage of the drug war and offer suggestions on how the policies can—and should—change.
The war on drugs has been a $1tn failure. For more than four decades, governments around the world have pumped huge sums of money into ineffective and repressive anti-drug efforts.
Over the past several days, the news has been full of stories about LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling and the racist outburst that’s gotten him banned for life by the NBA. But another story Vox wrote about this month that’s gotten far less attention probably tells us more — and something more disturbing — about how racism works in America today.
Today, May 1, 2014, is International Labor Day. It is worth summing up how well American workers—and their unions—have fared over the past year; since the so-called economic recovery began in mid-2009; and for the recent decades preceding.
By Andrea James
During a time of the year when we celebrate mothers and the contribution women provide to the strength, health and well-being of our children and communities, thousands of mothers remain separated from their children due to
When Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, told his girlfriend he did not want her bringing blacks to Clippers’ games, he wasn’t talking to some blue-eyed blond.
The history of Black people in this country is a complex, engaging and thought-compelling history, a history of Holocaust and enduring hope; of savage enslavement and yet an unsupressable desire and demand for freedom.
At a panel titled “Grassroots Organizing” at the Network for Public Education conference in Austin in March, an audience member asked the all-white panel for its definition of “grassroots.” The conference had been called to “give voice to those opposing privatization, school closings, and high-stakes testing.”
At the march on Washington in August 1963, where Martin Luther King made his “I have a dream” speech, the United States Information Agency, the nation’s propaganda wing devoted to “public diplomacy”, made a documentary.
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