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…

By Adam Hudson, Truthout — In April, another unarmed Black person was killed by police. Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African-American male, was arrested by Baltimore police on April 12, given a…

Half Moon Caye Natural Monument in Belize. (Photo: anoldent/Wikimedia/cc) By Desmond Brown, IPS News Caribbean leaders on Saturday further advanced their policy position on climate change ahead of the 21st Conference…

In response to the recent thawing of relations between the United States and Cuba, the focus of much US media has been on politics

By: Charles D. Ellison Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake pauses during a news conference at City Hall April 24, 2015 in Baltimore. Baltimore may be a much calmer city this…