
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 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 Shady Srour Americans today grow up in a system of white supremacy. This white supremacy is so ingrained, so deep and so penetrating that it becomes almost part of…
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…
By David Remnick Muhammad Ali in Chicago, in 1966. CreditPHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS HOEPKER / MAGNUM What a loss to suffer, even if for years you knew it was coming. Muhammad Ali,…
By Areva Martin It’s become a genuine movement. A vehicle for change. Nationally, a mouthpiece intimately connected to and driving much of America’s conversation surrounding criminal justice reform, an end…
By Charles Derber and Yale Magrass The following is an excerpt from the new book Bully Nation by Charles Derber & Yale R. Magrass (University Press of Kansas, 2016): On October 1,…
Jerome Taylor, PhD1 BY JUSTICE I MEAN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF RACIAL EQUITY estimated here as the ratio of black over white achievement proficiencies in reading and math. Where this…
A book honoring the African Diaspora leaders across the globe who have accomplished outstanding tasks and who have demonstrated excellent professionalism and character while performing duties related to Africa and…