By Roberto A. Ferdman The Confederate flag flies near the South Carolina Statehouse, Friday, June 19, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt) In the aftermath of Thursday’s tragedy in…
By Ta-Nehisi Coates Last night, Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church, sat for an hour, and then killed nine people. Roof’s crime cannot be divorced from the ideology of…
By: Peniel E. Joseph People stand outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., June 18, 2015, after a mass shooting at the church the night before…
By: Laura Saunders Egodigwe Official Juneteenth Committee in Austin, Texas, June 19, 1900In 1865, enslaved Africans on Galveston Island, Texas, had been declared free two years earlier but didn’t know…
By Alicia Garza A mourner grieves during a prayer vigil at the Morris Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, June 18, 2015. Nine people were murdered…
By: Khyla D. Craine Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. In the late 1790s, Richard Allen and former enslaved people in Philadelphia were tired of praying in the…
David Goldman / AP By Yoni Appelbaum On Wednesday night, Dylan Roof, a 21-year-old white man, walked into a prayer meeting at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. For an…
Dorothy Johnson-Speight Responses to Violence and Crime Philadelphia, PA Galen Baughman Indefinite Detention Arlington, VA Maya Foa Capital Punishment London, UK Rachel Herzing Policing Oakland, CA Andrea James Incarceration’s Impact…
In Alice Walker’s short story“The Flowers,” a little girl happens upon the decomposing body of a lynching victim while she is out picking flowers. Walker contrasts the light tranquility of the…
By Dennis Weiser Corporate propaganda has convinced the populace that government alone is to blame for our problems, rather than the fusion of corporate power and government decision-making. (Image: Businessmen backlit via Shutterstock)…
The Rev. Jamal Bryant and others raise their fists during a protest march around the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center, Friday, May 1, 2015, in Baltimore. State’s Attorney Marilyn…
By David Commissiong The campaign to achieve the “payment” of Reparations to the nations and people of the Pan-African World for the atrocities committed against their ancestors and the…