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By: Allison Keyes People pray in front of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., on July 17, 2015, the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting at the church. John Moore/Getty…

By: Milton Washington Scene from commercial for laundry detergent that aired in China YouTube screenshot “Now the Chinese are talking s–t about us, too?” My friend Keba semiwhispered, wide-eyed, leaning into…

By Matt Stannard, Public Banking Institute — I’m for public banks because people have a right to share in sustainable abundance, such abundance is relatively easy to achieve structurally and…

By Steve Early, www.counterpunch.org As the 2016 primary season ends and Bernie Sanders backers look beyond next month’s Democratic convention in Philadelphia, many who’ve “felt the Bern” have their eye on…

by José L. Flores The political and economic crisis in Venezuela is showing little signs of easing up. Similarly, the propagandistic reporting of this crisis is showing little signs of easing…

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent — The formal regional conversation around marijuana in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will move to another level when the first national consultation on the issue is held…

By: Breanna Edwards Black students are almost four times as likely as white students to receive one or more out-of-school suspensions, new federal data released on Tuesday shows (pdf), underlining the grave disparity that still…

Muhammad Ali with his parents. AP By Gillian B. White All the things that my father loved and admired about Muhammad Ali were the things my grandfather despised—or, perhaps more aptly,…

By: Jason Johnson Black Muslim leader Malcolm X (2R), teasingly leaning on shoulder of tux-clad Cassius Clay (now Muhammad Ali) (L), who is sitting at soda fountain counter, surrounded by jubilant…