“How did a revolutionary movement get transformed into a bourgeois electoral party along lines of the British Labor Party or the Democratic Party in the US?”
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…
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
“With the death of Mandela, the spell has been broken in South Africa.”
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
“Ask yourself, what would it look like if policymakers wanted to end the prohibition of marijuana, but not necessarily the the war on drugs…”
With calls from victims of crime in The Bahamas, the “majority” of those received by his firm, a Florida-based maritime lawyer has claimed that Nassau may be “one gunshot away” from seeing cruise lines drop it from their cruising itineraries.
First contemporary findings on how the risk of arrest varies across race and gender Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are…
By Joseph Guyler Delva
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (HCNN) — Haiti’s prime minister, Laurent Lamothe, said on Monday that the citizenship issue caused by a constitutional court ruling in the Dominican Republic…
By Robert Reich One of the worst epithets that can be leveled at a politician these days is to call him a “redistributionist.” Yet 2013 marked one of the biggest…
Tens of thousands of asylum seekers launched a three-day strike, demos outside embassies, and the largest refugee protest in the country’s history –
The fresh page of a new year—what a thrilling place to be. And to kick off 2014, Colorlines asked several community leaders to share their racial justice wishes for the year.