
The framers of the Constitution never mentioned a right to vote. They didn’t forget. They intentionally left it out. By Morgan Marietta, The Conversation — If you’re looking for the…
The framers of the Constitution never mentioned a right to vote. They didn’t forget. They intentionally left it out. By Morgan Marietta, The Conversation — If you’re looking for the…
Until Democrats tell it like it is, their electoral majorities will continue to be fragile. By Robert Reich, The Guardian — A milder version of Liz Truss’s economically induced vanishing act…
A record number of Black candidates will run for office in the 2022 midterm elections including 16 Democrats and three Republicans. By Derek Major, Black Enterprise — A record number…
Jackson used “originalism” against the right’s “race-neutral” voting theory in oral arguments on “Merrill v. Milligan.” By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout — During the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in Merrill v. Milligan, a case that…
By Cassandra Berman — In the fall of 2014, Georgetown University’s student newspaper, the Hoya, ran an article by undergraduate columnist Matthew Quallen titled “Georgetown, Financed by Slave Trading.” Published the…
By David Comissiong — Now that our Caribbean governments have launched a serious effort to secure the payment of Reparations for the tremendous damage inflicted on the people of Africa…
In his speech to the UN General Assembly, the Colombian president highlighted the necessity of ending the war on drugs and saving the environment. By Peoples Dispatch — On the…
Supporters of republicanism in the Caribbean say is part of a larger reckoning with the legacy of British colonialism and the atrocities of the slave trade in the region. By…
The fight against racism has always been global. By Keisha N. Blain, Foreign Affairs — On June 13, 2020, Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to…
By Oluwadamilola Animashaun, Stanford Center for Racial Justice — In a move hailed as a major step for racial justice and the documentation of history, the Task Force to Study and Develop…
Race and the American Century. By Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs — October 1961 was a momentous month for W. E. B. Du Bois. Since the early years of the twentieth…
No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy. By Chris Hedges, ScheerPost — The fawning adulation of…