
By Saleem Gilmore I always thought that Angela Davis was a member of the Black Panther Party. To celebrate 50 years since the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland,…
By Saleem Gilmore I always thought that Angela Davis was a member of the Black Panther Party. To celebrate 50 years since the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland,…
By Michael D. Yates, Routledge | Book Excerpt (Image: Wealth shadow via Shutterstock) As a college teacher, I began telling my students in the early 1980s that we were witnessing the beginning of a rise…
By Les Leopold Hillary Clinton at a campaign rally at Hillside High School in Durham, North Carolina earlier this month. (Photo: Nathania Johnson/flickr/cc) The media tells us that Hillary has…
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.orgThe #BlackLivesMatter movement continues to grow its power and win notable victories, but the reality is that 600 hundred years of racial oppression, older than…
Robin D. G. Kelley Monday, March 7, 2016- bostonreview.net Editors’ Note: Answer Robin Kelley‘s call for a rebirth of political education by organizing a reading group. To help you get started,…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Thursday March 17, 2016 – Six years after Haiti was devastated by the massive 2010 earthquake, many people in the impoverished Caribbean country continue to hold Hillary Clinton’s State Department…
By Richard Behan / AlterNet Photo Credit: Anthony Correia / Shutterstock For 24 years Bill and Hillary Clinton have courted Wall Street money with notable success. During that time the New York…
By Christian Christensen The media (and this photoshop effort) have often made appear Donald Trump appear larger than he is. “For pundits and journalists in the US it’s convenient to…
A recent article in the Atlantic summed up this perspective with the tagline, “At this polarized moment, it’s incremental change or nothing.” This view, however, leaves out a critical driver of social transformation….
Pundits wrote the socialist senator off after Super Tuesday, but he came roaring back with a stunning upset in Michigan. Now his formidable ground campaign is kicking into high gear in…
As presidential campaigns descend on Illinois for Tuesday’s primary, a closely watched local race could yield the first electoral impact of the Black Lives Matter movement and the nationwide conversation on police killings. Incumbent…
By Harold Meyerson / The American Prospect Photo Credit: AFP Photo/Jewel Samad Much as I’ve liked Bernie Sanders, I never believed he’d be a stronger candidate than Hillary Clinton in the November…