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,…
By Mark Weisbrot Venezuela’s opposition has won a large majority of the country’s legislature, or National Assembly, for the first time in 16 years. Many observers in Washington see this as…
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: • •…
A Real Look at NYPD’s Experimental Community Policing Plan By Amelia Pang, Epoch Times | December 17, 2015 Last Updated: December 18, 2015 3:54 pm NEW YORK—Damon Jones was a 12-year-old African-American…
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…












