Our current political situation is unprecedented. The vast majority of Americans keep falling behind economically because of changes in society’s ground rules…
When 28-year-old George Zimmerman killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a residential Sanford, Florida, street in February 2012, after trailing the hoodie-clad…
The progressive community in the U.S. and beyond is mourning the loss and celebrating the life of friend and colleague Danny Schechter on Friday…
BERLIN – It was 1943 and the Nazis were deporting Greece’s Jews to death camps in Poland. Hitler’s genocidal accountants reserved a chilling twist: The Jews had to pay their train fare.
Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in local protests in Madison, Wisconsin, over the killing of Tony Robinson…
According to the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Riley, blacks were doing a lot better back in the days when lynchings were common.
My hope is that no Starbucks barista anywhere dares write “Race Together” on anyone’s latte and decides to have a “conversation about race” with customers…
When discussing race, the conservative argument is best expressed by the famous words of Chief Justice John Roberts…
Owning a home, then equal pay for equal work, and then having a college degree are the three factors that can make the biggest difference in closing the racial wealth gap…
We live in remarkable, transformative times. We have the library of Alexandria at our fingertips; all the recorded knowledge of the world is being digitized and made available through the Internet…
NEW HAVEN — LAST week, a milestone passed for my family in South Carolina — the 150th anniversary of the last day of slavery. We were the slaveholders.
Alexis Tsipras during a parliamentary session for the creation of a committee for claiming war reparations. Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters