
By: Kirsten West Savali Susan B. Anthony at age 50 Following the New York primary Tuesday, dozens of New Yorkers pilgrimaged to Rochester’s Mount Hope Cemetery to place “I Voted” stickers on…
By: Kirsten West Savali Susan B. Anthony at age 50 Following the New York primary Tuesday, dozens of New Yorkers pilgrimaged to Rochester’s Mount Hope Cemetery to place “I Voted” stickers on…
US Representatives Eliot L. Engel (L) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen WASHINGTON, USA — US congressman Eliot Engel, ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, on Thursday welcomed the unanimous approval by…
By: Jason Johnson Prince performing at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, on June 30, 2011 The world is still in shock at the passing of Prince, one of the…
By: Todd Steven Burroughs Michael Jackson onstage during his HIStory world tour in 1996; Whitney Houston performing on Good Morning America in 2009; Prince at Coachella in 2008 It’s hard to admit that…
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…