Last year saw a number of high- profile and tragic killings of African-Americans by police. The globally-publicised shooting of the 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in August was followed in September by the killing of 22-year-old John Crawford III, in Beavercreek, Ohio…
Speaking of urban India, sociologist Saskia Sassen aptly describes the emerging segregation pattern of metropolitan Atlanta: “Our cities will, in good part, become two cities: one for the privileged (and we will see more green space in these areas) and the other for the poor who have no gated community to go to.”
If you want a better idea about what Ben Carson sees as the driving force behind his presidential campaign-in-waiting…
Martin Luther King Jr. had more than “a dream,” but you might not notice that on Monday during observances for his birthday.
Every January, Martin Luther King, Jr. is universally honored as a national hero who preached a peaceful fight against racial injustice.
North Dakota State University graduate student Ramya Raghunathan works in one of the school chemistry laboratories on October 26, 2014.
Africa-France-relationshipDid you know many African countries continue to pay colonial tax to France since their independence till today!
As protesters march through our cities to remind us that black lives matter, grievances about our racially fractured society extend far beyond flashpoints over police violence.
As many as 2,000 people are feared dead in Nigeria from what has been described as Boko Haram’s deadliest attack amid ongoing bloodshed a UN official says “should be searing the conscience of the world.”
News came from northeast Nigeria on January 3rd that the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram had attacked Baga, a fishing town of ten thousand people on the shores of Lake Chad that has been raided by the militants before.
“Je suis Charlie” — I am Charlie — was the cry that that raced around the world in the wake of the murderous attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
White supremacy has a dark legacy within the United States, dating back to this country’s illegal founding.
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