by KATHY KELLY Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty,…
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We meet today in the vast shadow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and that is fitting for much like his contemporary, Min. Malcolm X, he had the…
By Charles Pierce
Is there any doubt, had there been a Dr. King in the past two decades who opposed the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as vigorously as Dr. King opposed the Vietnam catastrophe at the end of his life, that the full might of the modern American intelligence apparatus would have landed squarely on his head?
Two thirds of Americans say they are dissatisfied with the distribution of income and wealth. “This includes three-fourths of Democrats and 54% of Republicans…
The billionaires that make up the “Forbes 400” list have as much wealth as the entire African-American population of the U.S., over 41 million people, according to a new analysis by Bob Lord of the Institute for Policy Studies. Lord calls it “Dr. King’s Nightmare.”
They said you blew up America With verse and words no one dared speak A poet laureate politics sought to silence, whose robes were decked With Obe…
The intense and righteous struggle to immediately appoint a qualified representative for the children and community of District 1 to the LAUSD Board of Education in the person of Dr. George McKenna…
By Dan Roberts
GOP at least drops demand for another food stamp cut in bill going out for vote today.
As the nation’s nearly 80-year history of pot prohibition slowly begins to crumble, starting with Colorado’s recent implementation of taxed and legalized recreational marijuana, critics of the increasingly popular policy shift are jumping to denounce the move.
The following is an excerpt from Ian Haney-López’s new book, “Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class.”(Oxford University Press, 2014). This excerpt originally appeared onSalon.com.
Amiri Baraka, like his name, was a blessed prince, and he loomed like a colossus over the Black arts movement, excelling in practically every literary expression—as a poet, playwright, novelist, historian, journalist, and essayist.
Sadly, some writers have focused exclusively on the militant linkage between Malcolm X and Amiri Baraka to the criminal neglect of the genius of poetic insight and monumental powers in the art of the spoken word that bound them together.
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