Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran had been invited to Kingston for talks by Nicholson after Port of Spain had refused entry to 13 Jamaican nationals last month that had escalated into a threat of a trade war between the two CARICOM members.
by Solomon Comissiong
Hip Hop music has been hijacked by corporate Klansmen who suppress the righteous lyrics of artists “like Dead Prez, Capital X, Immortal Technique, Rebel Diaz, Jasiri X, and Bahamadia.”
By Eleanor J Bader, Truthout | Book Review
Historian Barbara Winslow’s fascinating portrait of trailblazer Shirley Chisholm (1926-2005) offers activists and organizers an inside look at one woman’s political ascent.
By Andrea Germanos
On Monday, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson warned that the impoverished nation was “descending into complete chaos before our eyes.”
This is an excerpt of a town hall meeting held at the Resurrection Community Methodist Church in Philadelphia, Pa. on November 22, 2013. The title theme of the town hall meeting, sponsored by the INSTITUTE OF THE BLACK WORLD 21st CENTURY (IBW), was “Time to Heal Black Families & Communities.
By Nicole Flatow, ThinkProgress
A teen who spent three years in a notorious New York jail without ever having been convicted or put on trial is coming forward after filing a lawsuit against New York City.
By Alyssa Figueroa, AlterNet A Walmart worker who was fired after taking part in the longest strike ever against the corporation continues to fight for his former co-workers.
By Imara Jones
Workers who earn minimum wage at retailers open on Thanksgiving Day can thank fallout from the government shutdown for being on the job that day.
by: Tim Wheeler
Vivian was one of 16 recipients of the award this past Wednesday, including former President Bill Clinton, and television personality Oprah Winfrey. Obama hailed Vivian for serving as one of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s closest advisers and for putting his life on the line in the struggle to end segregation.
BY ALISSA TROTZ
Last week’s column by Dominican economist Miguel Ceara-Hatton addressed the controversial September 23 ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic, which threatens to strip citizenship status from hundreds of thousands of predominantly Dominicans of Haitian descent.
By Ted Glick
“If you had a President who said: ‘Nobody in America is going to make less than $12 or $14 an hour,’ what do you think that would do?”
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