By: Yesha Callahan If there’s one thing that 2015 has taught us, it’s that racism isn’t a thing of the past; it’s a thing of the present. The idea of a…
By Mike Ludwig (Photo: NASA; Edited: LW / Truthout) 1. Anthropogenic Climate Disruption As world leaders prepared to haggle over the future of the planet at the COP21 climate summit in Paris,…
By Thomas Piketty Excerpt From the Introduction to Capital in the Twenty-First Century: “Social distinctions can be based only on common utility.”—Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, article…
By William I. Robinson (Image: Rising tide via Shutterstock)We are nearing 2016, the year when the richest 1 percent of humanity will own more than the rest of the world, according to projections…
Max Whittaker / Reuters / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic By Rebecca J. Rosen, Adrienne Green, Li Zhou, Alana Semuels, and Joe Pinsker For nearly half a century now, inequality in America has been…
By Lynn Stuart Parramore , Shutterstock, Orsola Costantini, senior economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, is the author of a new paper that exposes the disturbing history of how a…
By Allie Yee The week of December 9, 2015, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a Texas redistricting case that has the potential to the change the balance of political…
By Adam Johnson Racism in media can be a difficult thing to pin down, but like pornography, you know it when you see it. It’s that toxic combination of bias fulfillment,…
The Board of Directors and the members of the Collective Empowerment Group (CEG) were pleased to honor Mr. James Clingman at its 20th Anniversary Gala, held in Bowie, Maryland on December 3, 2015. Clingman, economic empowerment writer, speaker, teacher, and Black newspaper columnist for nearly 30 years, received the Chairman’s Award from the CEG. Mr. Clingman has been a staunch advocate for CEG for nearly two decades.
By Terrance Heath Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Laquan McDonald. Sandra Bland. Walter Scott. Rekia Boyd. Tamir Rice. Most Americans have at least heard their names, and the stories of how…
By Jeremy Daw For the superstitious, Friday the 13th is a day fraught with bad luck. For Sarah Furay, that day came a week early and was Friday, November 6th….
By Peter Beinart Over roughly the past 18 months, the following events have transfixed the nation. In July 2014, Eric Garner, an African American man reportedly selling loose cigarettes illegally,…