By Matthew J. Cressler Georgetown University’s attempt to reckon with its history should prompt American Catholics to think about theirs. Two years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates reignited long-standing debates around reparations. His case for…
San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick. (photo: CBS) By David Swanson Speaking out against racism is one thing — and a wonderful and admirable thing it is — but choosing to…
By: Stephen A. Crockett Jr. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers during a game Jan. 19, 2014, in Seattle Ronald Martinez/Getty Images On Friday, Colin Kaepernick took a stand…
By Jared Keller, www.psmag.com At this very moment, nearly 450,000 Americans are sitting in county jails not because they’ve been charged with a crime, but because they simply don’t have enough…
By Gabrielle Bozarth and Naomi Kellogg A Georgia Department of Labor services specialist helps a woman with a job search at an unemployment office in Atlanta on March 3, 2016….
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference took on a new challenge: expose and overcome racial discrimination in Chicago. Here, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of From #BlackLivesMatter…
By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire) – Renowned civil rights and Black political journalist George E. Curry, the dean of Black press columnists because of his riveting weekly commentary…
By Manisha Sinha Universal Images Group / Getty Images Pierre Dominique Toussaint l’Ouverture (1746-1803) Haitian revolutionary leader. Etching by John Kay, 1802. The nation was a beacon for the anti-slavery cause…
Award-winning Civil Rights Journalist and Black Press Columnist George Curry Dead at 69 By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire) – Pioneering Civil rights and Black political journalist George E. Curry, the…
By David Swanson Charlottesville is a diverse, enlightened, and progressive college town in Virginia with its public spaces dominated by war memorials, in particular memorials to Confederate soldiers not from…
The U.S. Military Command in Africa, AFRICOM, is the West’s standing army on the continent, guardian of multinational corporations and the natural and human resources that keep the North America…
Above Photo: From linkis.com As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton led a team committed to delegitimizing the politics of the late Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution. While Hillary Clinton publicly…