Editors’ Choice

By Dr. Conrad Worrill, PhD

“Without vigorous Black Nationalist thinking and an aggressive Black Nationalist program of action, we will continue to chase false dreams created by our oppressors”

By Kshama Sawant This city has made glittering fortunes for the super wealthy and for the major corporations that dominate Seattle’s landscape. At the same time, the lives of working…

by ROSEMARY LÉVY ZUMWALT
In his memoir, Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers, Memories of Mississippi 1964-65, Jim Dann put to paper the stories from his time in Mississippi 50 years ago, working as a young college student for fifteen months…

Lyndon Johnson started the War on Poverty 50 years ago. Conservatives claim its a failure because poverty still exists, but the evidence is clear: without the social safety net, things in America would be much worse.

by ALICE O’CONNOR
Fifty years after Lyndon B. Johnson made it the centerpiece of his first State of the Union address on January 8, 1964, the War on Poverty remains one of the most embattled—and least understood—of Great Society initiatives.

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. NAFTA made the United States, Canada, and Mexico the largest free trade area in the world, linking 450 million people producing $17 trillion worth of goods and services.

By Ajamu Baraka
It was a fitting historical coincidence that during the same week President Obama was in South Africa to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela…