When you look at the facts, it’s clear that racism governs American drug policy. While five times as many white people as black people report using illicite drugs, the U.S. criminal justice system sends blacks to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of whites according to the ACLU.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on the international community to increase its aid to Haiti on the fourth anniversary of the devastating earthquake…
A Study of American Attitudes About Work, Economic Opportunity, and the Social Safety Net
Student activist Tre Murphy: Eric Holder and Arne Duncan’s call for less use of zero-tolerance policies is a good start but much work remains to reign in the use of law enforcement in public schools
HAVANA, Cuba, Friday January 10, 2014 – In the week since Cubans were granted the right to buy new and used vehicles from the state without special permission, markups of 400 percent…
Seven years before legal marijuana went on sale this month in my home state of Colorado, the drug warriors in President George W. Bush’s administration released an advertisement that is now worth revisiting.
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…
One week after the inauguration of new mayor Bill de Blasio, Melissa Mark-Viverito has been elected speaker of the New York City Council.
Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has died . He was 79.
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.