By: Hope Wabuke Ta-Nehisi Coates “I write you in your fifteenth year. I am writing you because this was the year you saw Eric Garner choked to death for selling…
By David Swanson – Yes, I also want to say Free Mumia. In fact, I want to say Free all the prisoners. Turn the prison holding Mumia Abu-Jamal into a…
By John Metta in The Huffington Post – I don’t talk about race with White people. To illustrate why, I’ll tell a story: It was probably about 15 years ago…
By Britney Schultz in Truthout – The plight of Indigenous children recently made headlines, as Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a damning report calling the country’s long-held policy of…
By Harry Targ in Heartland Radical – The movements of global resistance have grown enormously, particularly since the recession of 2008, as has reaction. Violent reaction from rightwing movements, in…
By Mike Whitney in Counterpunch – Let’s cut to the chase: Leaders of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) realize that global security cannot be entrusted to…
By Rev. Edward Pinkney. My name is Reverend Edward Pinkney. I am at Lakeland Correctional Facility, otherwise known as a prison, in Coldwater, Michigan. I am a victim of racial…
By Lena K. Gardner in StandingOnTheSideOfLove.org. Minneapolis, MN – Last November, I lay down with just under a hundred other people on an interstate highway in Minneapolis. Along with thousands…
By Hazel Trice Edney Denise Rolark Barnes, new NNPA chair. PHOTO: Roy Lewis/Trice Edney News Wire New NNPA Chair Denise Rolark Barnes responds to audience after the June 19…
Afro-descendant women leaders, women from diverse communities and different countries of the Americas and the Caribbean, aware of our responsibility as committed women, fighters and promoters of rights of women…
By Nathalie Baptiste An aerial view of downtown Port Au Prince on January 16, 2010 in Haiti. (Photo: Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock/US Air Force) The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti five years…
By Candida Moss Pope Francis has been on a “homecoming” tour in Latin America. During his trip to Bolivia on Thursday, the Pontiff apologized for sins and “offenses” committed by…