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By Phillip Smith The omnibus spending bill approved by Congress this morning includes several drug reform provisions, although reformers didn’t get everything they wanted. The bill includes language blocking the Justice…

By Adam Johnson CNN’s debate Tuesday night was billed as a debate focusing on national security, foreign policy and terrorism. As CNN‘s Wolf Blitzer said as he introduced the questioning: • •…

By Richard Rainey “The time surely comes when (justice) must and will be heard,” Mayor Mitch Landrieu told the council as he called for the statues to be put in…

By Andy Campbell  KKK fliers were sent out to people in Alabama this month to stop “The Spread Of Islam.” Americans may fear the threat of international terrorism, but Muslims…

  By Daniel Marans The Federal Reserve’s decision to raise its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday is bad news for black workers. The move is expected to put downward pressure on job…

Serena Williams’s otherworldly year was capped this week with her being named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year for 2015. And, while many sports aficionados applauded the accolade, and the striking image…

by Earl Ofari Hutchinson  The third Democratic presidential candidate’s debate got a distant second ranking in headline news to the very public warfare between Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders and the…

By Mark Karlin Just as social-ism is about the needs of society, capital-ism is about the needs of capital. (Image: Hands together via Shutterstock) The following is an interview with Danny Katch, author…

By Hazel Trice Edney USBC CEO Ron Busby Sr. (center left, red tie), with Industrial Bank CEO Doyle Mitchell along with members of the Black Male Entrepreneurship Institute. PHOTO: Ashlei Sutton…

By Joan Walsh Supporters at a campaign rally for Donald Trump on December 5, 2015, in Davenport, Iowa.  (AP Photo / Charlie Neibergall) The image of the United States as a broadly prosperous middle-class…