There are more African Americans under correctional control today ̶ in prison or jail, on probation or parole ̶ than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.
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This month marks the martyrdom of Steve Bantu Biko who stands among the pillars of the world African Liberation Movement as a tall tree among the towering trees at the top of a mountain.
by Judith Browne Dianis
Every child should be able to dream big, yet we’re facing a discipline crisis in schools across the United States.
By Kai Wright, The Nation
People like Luis Rivera are being locked out of the formal workforce forever thanks to one youthful mistake.
Late on Christmas night terrorists bombed a wood-framed house in Mims, Florida. Harry Moore, 46, died instantly. His wife Harriette, 49, would die days later. They were African-American civil rights leaders. That was 1951. No one was convicted. Too few remember.
Nelson Mandela’s death has elicited a predictable outpouring of accolades. Glowing praise is now coming from American politicians as disparate as Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama.
By Chris Hedges
I began teaching a class of 28 prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey during the first week of September.
Unsurprisingly, Mayor-elect Bill De Blasio appointed Bill Bratton as his Police Commissioner of New York City.
By Emily DePrang
Sebastian Prevot watched helplessly as three police officers advanced on his wife. Prevot was handcuffed and bleeding in the back of a cop car.
Dr Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Truthout.
At the dawn of the Nelson Mandela administration, I had the extraordinary privilege to sit at the table with the new African National Congress leadership as the Environmental Protection Agency-White House liaison to the South African government.
By Basil Wilson For Carib News
C.L.R. James, the late Caribbean intellectual, was fond of saying that the civil rights movement was the finest movement in American history.
By Michael Daly
Not long after his release, the Nobel winner was granted the title by the prime minister of Greenland. He took it to heart—even fighting for Christmas equality for South African kids.
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