By Alicia Garza, Participants in the Cleveland convening of the Movement for Black Lives take part in an impromptu dance and drumming circle on the campus of Cleveland State University….
By Roque Planas NEW YORK — Black activists and immigrant groups across the country are pressing the Obama administration to take a stronger stand on what they call a human…
By: Theresa Thompson While speaking at the NAACP national convention earlier this month, President Barack Obama endorsed “banning the box” on job applications so that formerly incarcerated people, like…
By Mark Winston Griffith His nickname was Mike-Mike and his favorite color was blue. The morning workshop portion on the first day of the gathering was over, and the afternoon…
July 25, 2015 BernieSanders.com Thank you for inviting me to be with you tonight. Thank you for the work you continue to do as leaders in civil rights. You…
By Alan Aja, Daniel Bustillo, William Darity, Jr., and Darrick Hamilton Community and Occupy activists protest foreclosures, Brooklyn, December 2011 (Joe Lustri/Flickr) When President Lyndon Johnson gave his June 4,…
By Hisham Aidi So far this year, 14 Afro-Colombian youths have been killed in the Colombian capital, writes Aidi [EPA] On April 9, two Afro-Colombian men, both 20 years old…
By Hisham Aidi Peruvians hold up their cajones, a traditional musical instrument, in celebration. On the night of June 4, the Plaza Mayor of Lima was lit up with lights…
By: Tonyaa Weathersbee Two weeks before President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. and Cuba would reopen embassies that had been shuttered for more than 50 years, I was embarking on…
By Brit Bennett Coates’s “Between the World and Me” is written as an open letter to his teen-age son. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHEN VOSS/REDUX The night Trayvon Martin’s killer walked…
By Dave ZirinTwitter Serena Williams wins the women’s singles final at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday July 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) There are numerous…
Report: The new debt trap: How the response to the last global financial crisis has laid the ground for the next This report (40 pages) and its executive summary (8 pages) investigates the debts…