
By Ronald Cohen, TIME — Throughout my life I have been greatly helped. In 1957, when I was 11 years old, my family and I left Egypt as refugees in…
By Ronald Cohen, TIME — Throughout my life I have been greatly helped. In 1957, when I was 11 years old, my family and I left Egypt as refugees in…
By Eloise Barry, TIME — The South African writer Damon Galgut was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize this week for his novel The Promise, which confronts the racist history of his native country…
New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on a single firm, Franklin and Armfield, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people….
For a century and more, the conventional wisdom about the evolution of the financial systems embodied in institutions like Lehman Brothers was that modern American capitalism was built not on…
Lope Martín, an Afro-Portuguese pilot, was the first navigator to sail from the Americas to Asia and back. By Andrés Reséndez, TIME — In grade school and beyond, we learn…
By Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, TomDispatch — When President Biden first unveiled the Build Back Better agenda, it appeared that this country was on the path to a new war…
He sits in prison after decades of fighting for Black liberation, forgotten by the nation that never understood him, writes Rembert Browne. By Rembert Browne, TIME — It seemed like…
At COP26 the wealthy countries cast themselves as saviours, yet their efforts are hopelessly inadequate and will prolong the injustice. By George Monbiot, The Guardian — The story of the…
By Aarón Torres, Kansas City Star — When Gwen Grant looks at the socioeconomic gaps between Black people and white people in the Kansas City area, she feels troubled. “At…
By Will Jones, ABC7 Chicago — The City of Evanston has received more than 500 applications for its restorative housing program, according to city officials. Justin Marcoviche-Garnett applied on behalf…
Fall of Africa’s greatest empire The Battle of Tondibi, which resulted in the defeat of the Songhay army, took place on 13 March 1591. By Mathew Lyons, History Today —…
By Chelsey Cox, USA Today — As polls closed late Tuesday, states throughout the country saw a range of candidates of color racking up election wins in historic results. The…