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…
By Tomas Rios Serena Williams is shattering every record in tennis this year. Why isn’t she being paid like the women she is dominating in the process? Serena Williams is…
By Sarah Lazare A large crowd cheered as the Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina statehouse on Friday. (Photo: Travis Dove/The New York Times ) Thousands flocked to…
by Benjamin Woods “Diplomatic relations can be established with the African Union to, at least, make a statement about the ongoing police violence against Black people in the diaspora.” Amilcar…
By John Vibes Former Federal Judge Nancy Gertner recently spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival about the damage that she saw the drug war inflict on people during her…
By MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The revolving door: The list of financial giants that Holder’s Department of Justice – and his Covington & Burling bench team – have…
By Brigitte Vittrup (iStock) I’m a white woman married to a black man. Several years ago a friend’s 6-year-old son Jake met my husband for the first time. He looked…