I’ve been in transit or offline all of today and didn’t see President Obama’s Selma speech in real time.

The Internet is such a part of everyday life that many people don’t notice how much they rely on it. Those Skype calls to faraway relatives?
Article 14 of the United Nations General Assembly’s Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparations provides “an adequate..
Noam Chomsky weighs in on the Black Lives Matter movement across the United States, calling it a response to the unresolved consequences of slavery and racism dating back hundreds of years.

Tens of thousands of people—including President Obama—will travel to Selma this weekend to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,”…

PRINCETON, N.J.—Tariq Ali is part of the royalty of the left. His more than 20 books on politics and history, his seven novels…

Demonstrators protest against conditions at Guantanamo Bay in front of the White House in 2014.
For the last forty years, America’s approach to criminal justice has grown steadily more punitive.
Marvell Robinson was in kindergarten when a classmate poured an anthill on him at the playground.
In June 2012, an activist writing under the name Tarheel Dem described his arrest on May 17, 2012, with a group of other activists in advance of the NATO summit in Chicago.
Thirty-seven percent of white Americans believe that the police treat black people less fairly; 70 percent of black Americans feel the same way.
Concerning the issue of Reparations for Native Genocide and Slavery, Barbados and other CARICOM states will go the route of diplomacy and not protest.