
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….
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…
By Sarah Lazare, AlterNet From the floor of the Republican National Convention to the online pages of the Blue Lives Matter Facebook community, it is now commonplace for public officials, police and first responders to openly…
By Simon Maloy / Salon Elizabeth Warren Donald Trump The Democratic National Convention got off to about as rough a start as you could imagine, with the party committee chair abruptly resigning and…
By Andrew Rosenthal Ever since Americans elected their first African-American president, the not-so-hidden racism on the right has steadily slithered its way into the open — enabled most recently by…
By: Yesha Callahan Dan Aykroyd attends the premiere of Ghostbusters on July 9, 2016, in Hollywood, Calif. JB Lacroix/WireImage Dan Aykroyd is joining in with the multitude of Leslie Jones supporters…