By Marc Morial, CEO, National Urban League. The U.S. Treasury’s move this week to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the front of the $20 bill is a milestone…
By Stereo Williams Prince Rogers Nelson was—and still is—the gold standard of artistry. A brilliant guitarist, bassist, arranger, and producer, he was more than a visionary. He was an entity…
Published on April 18, 2016 By Ray Chickrie (Caribbean News Now) ISTANBUL, Turkey — The 13th Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit, which ended on Friday in Istanbul, Turkey, in its communiqué…
By Jelani Cobb Alicia Garza, a labor organizer in Oakland, espouses a type of ecumenical activism. Credit Photograph by Amy Elkins for The New Yorker On February 18th, as part of the official…
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a New Deal-style liberal, at a campaign event on Sunday at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. (photo: Max Whittaker/NYT) By Bill Simpich Building a…
Sanders in Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) By Azi Paybarah At an appearance Saturday in Brooklyn, Senator Bernie Sanders said, “We owe a debt of gratitude to the Black Lives Matter movement.” He said…
Only half of young Americans between ages 18 and 35 want the U.S. government to formally apologize for slavery, and nearly two-thirds think America should not redress the horrors of…
By: Leah Wright Rigueur Jackie Robinson and his son David (then age 11) are interviewed during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. On a Saturday evening in February of 1966, over a…
By Walter Fields The “Big Four” civil rights leaders meeting with President Lyndon Johnson in the Oval Office. While there were allusions to the partisan preferences of civil rights leaders…
By Kirsten West SavaliThough the United States government has wrapped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy in the American flag, waving his words to symbolize racial harmony and patriotic solidarity even as…
By Joan WalshTwitter Congresswoman Donna Edwards (Courtesy of the Donna Edwards for Senate campaign) Baltimore —It’s a Saturday morning in early March, and a multiracial group of Unite Here Local 7 members are playing an…
By Chuck Collins As global wealth concentrates in fewer hands, the world’s wealthy are shifting trillions to offshore havens to escape taxation, accountability, and publicity. The just-released Panama Papers—filled with titillating details…