In case you’ve been living under a rock, Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a thing at The Atlantic making the case for reparations.

One of the greatest weeks in progressive political history started on July 30, 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare and Medicaid bills into law.

President Barack Obama’s summit with African leaders is the largest gathering of the continent’s heads of state with a sitting US leader.

Fifty-two years in the life of a nation is not a long time. In comparison to Chinese civilization, Jamaica’s fifty-two years is like an evening past.
For white America, confronting its own racism is a lot like attitudes surrounding the virus that can lead to AIDS.

At first glance you might guess by their deep-chocolate complexions, matching warm smiles and coordinated traditional attire that Charlotte Fadare and her husband, Olusola Fadare, have everything in common.

One of the hallmarks of American civilization is the premium placed on the individual.

On Friday, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to allow nearly 50,000 nonviolent federal drug offenders to seek lower sentences.
Perhaps the terrible truth of drug war violence will finally be addressed as all of America bore witness this summer to the horror of some 52,000 unaccompanied children who were fleeing devastating violence that had erupted in Central America.
Black people recently have witnessed two heinous incidents in which police on both coasts shattered any confidence many of us had in law enforcement.

Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, did several stints in rehab after crashing his car into a barricade on Capitol Hill in 2006, a headline-making event that revealed…
From an ancient Chinese cure-all to the settlers of Jamestown to Colorado’s legalization experiment, the complicated evolution of marijuana.